Sin City: Prostitution in Georgian London
Today’s research rabbit hole.
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Tess Writes Romance | Erotic romance with a touch of history
Tess Writes Romance | Erotic romance with a touch of history
I was going to spend the afternoon writing, but then my cover files came in. So then I had to do the social media announcements, and make the Goodreads page. Then my website looked shoddy by comparison, and I had to get some work done on that.
… I wrote 300 words. Ugh.
At least the page looks shiny?
Rite of Summer (Treading the Boards, #1)
Rite of Summer (Treading the Boards, #1)
There are terrors worse than stage fright. Like falling in love. Violinist Stephen Ashbrook is passionate about three things—his music, …
Rite of Summer, now up on Goodreads if anyone wants to add this to their TBR list.
Awesome Puritan names
A while ago, for fun, I started doing some reading on some of the stranger naming choices made by the Puritans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. (Yes, for fun. I am a dork.) Here are a few of my favourites:
A Sussex jury roll from the 1600s includes the names…
The History of Abortifacients
The peacock flower (or flos pavonis) is an arresting plant, standing nine feet tall in full bloom, with brilliant red and yellow blossoms. But it’s more than beautiful; it’s an abortifacient, too. One of the most striking records of the plant comes from German-born botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian who, in her 1705 book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam, recounts:
An absolutely fascinating article on the medieval and early modern access to abortifacients, and the erosion of reproductive freedoms for women over the past two hundred years. Well worth a read.
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