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Showing posts with label Washington D.C.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington D.C.. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Highlights from the Historical Novel Society North American Conference (HNSNA) 2019, Oxon Hill, Maryland

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I’ve been blogging about historical fiction for the last six years, and, in 2020, my own debut historical novel, Brontë’s Mistre...
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Sunday, 23 September 2018

5 Nineteenth-Century Women I Learned about at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.

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A few weeks ago the Secret Victorianist was back in Washington D.C. (read about my first trip, in 2015, here ). And so I took the opportunit...
Thursday, 9 August 2018

Neo-Victorian Voices: Lincoln in the Bardo, George Sanders (2017)

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One of the most lauded historical novels of the last 5 years, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Man Booker winning Lincoln i...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

Neo-Victorian Voices: March, Geraldine Brooks (2005)

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Jo said sadly, "We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time." She didn't say "perhaps never,"...
Tuesday, 17 February 2015

A Nineteenth Centuryist in Washington D.C.

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Rather appropriately for the President’s Day weekend, the Secret Victorianist spent the last few days in Washington D.C. It was my first vi...
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Saturday, 10 January 2015

The Nineteenth-Century House of Cards

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“Who then is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half th...