NineteenTeen

I am always on the lookout for nineteenth century history near me, which can sometimes be challenging in the Pacific Northwest, especially i...

When I was researching for A View Most Glorious (lovely, lovely research), one of the first people that popped up was the first woman to re...

I recently read The Great Clippers by Jane D. Lyon, who mentions a young wife who took command of a sailing ship as it rounded the Horn in ...

Used bookstores. Is there anything better than an afternoon spent hunting through the shelves and stacks in one? As delightful as a new book...

Heroines with unusual names always intrigue me, and Etheldred Benett is an excellent example. Etheldred was born in either 1775 or 1776, t...

I originally posted this in November 2009, but I recently ran across a few more interesting facts and thought it a good time to update. An...

Our heroine this time wasn’t born in the nineteenth century, but her efforts and attitude have recently inspired me, and I thought they mi...

I have written about Ezra Meeker before. He’s something of a hero in my neck of the woods, or at least he was when I was a girl. So I wa...

Some of you know that I was once and occasionally still am a writer of technical documents. That’s why I was particularly thrilled when ...

Lady Emily Southwell, the heroine in my Lady Emily Capers, dreams of being an artist. That was a nearly impossible goal for a young lady...

Valentine’s Day is approaching. My sweetie and I are trying to determine how to celebrate. Millions of people from school-agers to senior ...

I’m researching a new series (lovely, lovely research!), and my first heroine is slated to be a cavalry officer’s widow. I wanted her to ...

One of the things I’ve enjoyed in my Frontier Bachelors series is discovering (or rediscovering) real-life heroes and heroines in my own ...

Lilacs are a lovely flower—the scent, the color, the way they hang like plump grapes. It was a love of flowers and growing things in general...

As many of you know, my most recent series, Frontier Bachelors , involves a number of heroines who were Mercer Girls, ladies who came wit...

It’s been a while since we talked about a real-life heroine of the nineteenth century, but I hope you agree that Flora Augusta Pearson En...

It’s been a while since I discovered another nineteenth century lady worthy of being part of our ongoing series, but a friend recently gave ...

A few weeks ago I blogged about The Family Nurse , a wonderful look into family medical practices in early nineteenth century America.  ...

Some of you will remember a series I did a while ago at QNPoohBear's suggestion of real-life nineteenth century ladies who were inspir...