Author : Kristine Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Provides period information on home furnishings, fashion, medicine, the courts, entertainment, shopping, travel, and etiquette.
Author : Marc McCutcheon
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Intended for writers who need authentic background for their writing, but makes a hipper-dipper read for the rest of us palookas, too. Covers popular slang as well as the terms and lingo specific to Prohibition, the Depression, WWII, the crime world, transportation, fashion, radio, and music and dance. Includes chronologies of events, movies, books, and songs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Gives an overview of life in Northwestern Europe from 500 to 1500 and provides details for writers to portray the lives and times of the Middle Ages accurately.
Author : Michael J Varhola
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 1999-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781582973371
From soldiers and statesmen to farmers and firing lines, Everyday Life During the Civil War offers an in-depth exploration of this fascinating era. Using dozens of illustrations, timelines, and maps, Varhola illuminates the details of both Northern and Southern life.
Author : Meredith Allard
Publisher : Copperfield Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Do you want to write historical fiction? Join Meredith Allard, the executive editor of The Copperfield Review, the award-winning literary journal for readers and writers of historical fiction, as she shares tips and tricks for creating believable historical worlds through targeted research and a vivid imagination. Give in to your daydreams. Do the work. Let your creativity loose into the world so you can share your love of history and your passion for the written word with others.
Author : Sharon W. Propas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317216482
First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.
Author : Annie Weber
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 099115701X
A tale of nine love stories--spanning 1100 years and stretching from the canyons and mesas of prehistoric North America to the snowy peaks of the Himalayas, from the Serengeti plains of Africa to the inner confines of a sultan's harem, from the Adirondack lakes of the British colonies to the law courts of Victorian London, and finally to the hospital halls of Ohio. What weaves these tales together is something stronger than death and lasting longer than time as we know it. Beyond the sweeping romance and soul-baring emotional intrigue, Weber delivers nine well-researched historical studies of what it was like to live in those widely varying cultures during vastly different times...and what can happen when you continue to open your heart to love.
Author : Kristin Ramsdell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1610692357
A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
Author : Jennifer Kloester
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402241402
Georgette Heyer fans are sure to delight in Kloester's definitive guide to Heyer's Regency world: the people, the shops, clubs and towns they frequented, the parties and seasons they celebrated, how they ate, drank, dressed, socialized, voted, shopped, and drove.
Author : Laura Claridge
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812967410
In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.
