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Last updated 2/20/25.

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Literary History

• The Startling Eye of Emily Dickinson

• Emily Dickinson’s Writing Routine

• Lives Like Loaded Guns: The Dickinson Family’s Feuds

• The Illusion of Jane Austen’s Death

• Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Polish Boy’

• Jane Austen & the Matter of Marriage

• Jane Austen’s Forgotten Siblings

• Jane Austen the Time-Traveler

• Charles Dickens in America

• 5 Books to Read on Christmas

• E. T. A. Hoffmann: Author of ‘The Nutcracker’

• Christmas in Dickens’ Time

• Charles Dickens: The Man who Reinvented Christmas

• Louisa May Alcott’s First War

• Louisa May Alcott: “Little Women” is Born

• Abigail May: The Alcott who Got Away

• The End of the Alcott Story

• Louisa May Alcott: What Were Her Sisters Like?

• Louisa May Alcott & the Struggling Roots of “Little Women”

• The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

• Mary Shelley: An Introduction & Her Dream

• Remembering Harriet: The Other Shelley Woman

• The Tragedy of the Shelley Children

• Conclusion: How Mary Shelley Lost Percy to the Sea

• Charles Dickens and Mesmerism

• Beatrix Potter: Author and Naturalist, Part I

• Beatrix Potter: Author and Naturalist, Part II

• Beatrix Potter: Author and Naturalist, Part III

American History

• The Edenton Tea Party

• Anne Bradstreet: America’s First Poet

• Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: The Woman in Bloomers

• A Tribute to Mary, Mother of George Washington

• John Adams & the Eternal Love of Books

Art History

• Lizzie Siddal: The Tragic Life and Death of Art’s First Supermodel

• A Reflection on van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Memoirs

• The Tongue of Flowers

• “You’re Always Carrying That Book!”

• Prologue to 2025

Guest Blog Posts

• Ten Fictional Female Detectives From Long Before Miss Marple by Elisabeth Grace Foley

• The Story of Anne Boleyn by Hannah Elizabeth

• Why We Must Not Forget About Dickens by Lyna

• Author Liza Libes on ‘The Lilac Room’ and Edith Wharton by Liza Libes

• The Story of Circe by ellie ireland

• In Her Own Words: What Mary Wollstonecraft’s Early Letters Reveal by

  N.J. (Nancy) Mastro

Novel: The Graveyard House (still in progress)

• Chapter One

• Chapter Two

• Chapter Three

• Chapter Four

• Chapter Five

• Chapter Six

• Chapter Seven

• Chapter Eight

• Chapter Nine

• Chapter Ten

• Chapter Eleven

• Chapter Twelve

• Chapter Thirteen

• Chapter Fourteen

• Chapter Fifteen

• Chapter Sixteen

• Chapter Seventeen

• Chapter Eighteen

• Chapter Nineteen

• Chapter Twenty

• Chapter Twenty-One

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