“Your first duty is to God; your second to your Sovereign; your third to yourself.” Such was the belief of those who served England’s Queen Victoria throughout her 63-year reign. Their positions — governess, maid-of-honor, chaplain, physician — were dull and grueling, but gave them an up-close look at a world few could ever see….
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Review: How to be a Victorian
You know that moment when you think, “I should have been born in a different century!” and then you read a book about that era and it totally decimates your charming, rose-colored ideas about the time? Welcome to How to be a Victorian. In this 440-page chunkster, author Ruth Goodman shares incredible details on clothing…
Review: Pilgrims Don’t Wear Pink
Libby Kelting has just landed a history aficionado’s dream job: an internship at Maine’s oldest Living History Museum. Adios cell phones and Facebook, hello corsets and baking! Libby knows this is going to be the best summer ever. Except it’s not. Her roommate is a prissy bitch, a local reporter seems determined to get under…
Review: The Private World of Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer wrote more than 50 novels and has been a beloved author for more than 90 years, but she kept her professional and personal lives so separate that for many years any real information about her as a person were inaccessible. The Private World of Georgette Heyer is the result of author Jane Aiken…
Review: No Ordinary Time
When Hitler began his invasion of Western Europe in May 1940, Franklin Roosevelt faced a dilemma. He was part-way through his second term as President, and his New Deal was only beginning to benefit a country trying to claw its way out of the Great Depression. America’s military was at its smallest and least prepared…