I mean, nowhere actually, but I have been distracted and busy. I finished the freelance job: 55,000 words and four maps by the end. Handed […]
Tag: things i read
The week, huh.
The freelance project is coming into the final turn, and I am in that weird zone when I am completely useless for anything else. The […]
Five things: onward.
I still miss Jim, of course. I’ve been cat-sitting for Annie until she goes to her loving new home, which means I have been at […]
Life, going on.
I am still grieving for Jim, of course. I know this will go on; it will come, it will go. I am so grateful for […]
1000 books: Libby.
Another one of these luscious, lusciou books that became so popular after the Edwardian Diary: Libby: The Sketches, Letters, & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded […]
1000 books: A Lady of Fashion.
This is one of my favorites of these: A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson’s Album of Styles and Fabrics (copies start at $160) is a […]
1000 books: Maud.
Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Woman, Maud Berkeley. This time, she lives on the Isle of Wight, these diaries are for the 1880s-90s, […]
1000 books: Country Diary
Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden, from 1906 but taking the Gift Books world by storm in 1977 and for what seemed […]
1000 books: Diary of a Victorian Lady (first of many).
The Diary of a Victorian Lady: Scenes from her Daily Life, 1864-1865, from Adelaide Pountjoy. This is a total pleasure: a young woman of considerable […]