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Launch events for The Dowry Blade
Publication day for The Dowry Blade approaches, and pre-publication copies are already available from Arachne Press’ web shop, where there is also a special offer of £25 (free postage in the UK) for combining TDB with Mosaic of Air (normal combined price £27.98) for the first 20 people to get there. I have 4 launch events lined…
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The Dowry Blade, live and in the flesh
There is nothing to beat a pile of new books, except a pile of new books that you wrote yourself. And this is a big pile, of big books! The Dowry Blade is big! It weighs 620 grams. I hadn’t really thought through the amount of space a 400 page book printed in Royal format…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 26th February
Let’s light the candles on the cake for Mary Taylor 1817-1893 Mary and her sister, Martha, went to school at Roe Head, Mirfield, where in 1831 Mary met Ellen Nussey and Charlotte Brontë and they became great friends. Mary and Charlotte both stayed in each others homes regularly. Charlotte used the Taylor family as the…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 25th February
No birthday alloted today, so a random choice: Theodora Bosanquet OBE 1881-1961 (no idea what day she was born, history and the internet refuses to relate) Now. Theodora is best known for being Henry James’ secretary. Not a good start, but remarkable that anyone could get known for being anyone’s secretary really. James described her…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 2nd February
I’ve not been able to find anyone with the 2nd of February as their birthday but I have two for tomorrow, so let’s celebrate Elizabeth Blackwell, 3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910 the first woman to be awarded a degree in medicine in the USA. Blackwell was actually British, born in Bristol; when she…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 13th January
Today’s birthday girl is the ‘Last of the Red Hot Mamas’ – Sophie Tucker 1884-1966 A Vaudeville and Broadway star of her time, who started out (not her idea) blacked up, Sophie ‘came out’ as a nice jewish girl when her makeup box was stolen on the way to a gig. The audience was delighted…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 12th January
No famous birthday today, but three for tomorrow so let’s celebrate Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (aka Amanda Cross) January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003 a day early. She’d probably quite like getting in early, she never was one for conventions. Described as the Mother of feminist academia (personally not sure I’d want to be described as…
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