Last week’s post took you on a tour of 19th century fancy dress masquerade costumes. This week we take a deeper dive and look at one that I made!
October 2022
#MyrtleMondays: What are you wearing for Halloween?
This may not surprise you, but Hallowe’en has always been my favorite holiday! I love the spooky atmosphere and decorations, and I especially love to dress up. The modern observation of Hallowe’en, with its trick-or-treating, hadn’t evolved yet in the Victorian era, but our 19th century ancestors loved fancy dress and masquerades, at all times… Read more »
#MyrtleMondays: The Victorian Hospital, part 1
As I plot and scheme new ideas for the Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries, I am constantly on the lookout for settings and situations that make for high stakes, high drama, and high adventure. One of the most perilous places I could think of to send Myrtle & Co. is one we now consider a place of… Read more »