Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY ON THE STAGE
New York World -Sunday, March 4, 1888 She Wears a Scant Costume and Marches With the Amazons It Isn’t Very Hard to Get Such a Job—The Girls Earn $5 a Week—Tights that Did Not Fit—Dressing in a Crowded Room—How She Behaved on the Stage—A Bad Beginning. I made my début...
Nellie Bly’s World – SOME LADIES WHO FENCE
New York World - Sunday, March 11, 1888 Nellie Bly Takes a Hand at Foils and Likes the Exercise It Looks Very Easy, But Isn’t—Women Cleverer Than Men Are—Anybody Can Learn to be Graceful at It—How Members of the Fencers’ Club Dress—Teachers Say That the Practice Is...
Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY AND MR. LEXOW – Police Reform!
Nellie Bly and Mr. Lexow The New York World/July 1, 1894 The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee Answers Some Very Interesting Questions More Exposures To Come What Mr. Lexow Believes Will Be the Ultimate Result of the Revelations of Corruption The Excise...
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Myth Conceptions
Next week, over at the Shanghai Low blog THE PENNY DREADFUL, we begin serializing HER MAJESTY'S WILL. It's an experiment on my part, as I close in on the end of the Roman novel and work on a silly pirate thing, to see if I can write a serial novel a la...
And the secret project takes a hit.
For a year, Jan and I have been working on a proposal for a very cool book. Just yesterday I mentioned it in my post about the serial novel. Because of its ties to another entity, we needed a lot of permissions to go ahead with it. Well, we just found out that our...
HER MAJESTY’S WILL: A Novel In Serial Format, Starting Next Month!
While I toil on through the Roman novel (and await word on the secret project), I'm also dabbling with a new novel. I've had the first few chapters written for a year, but it's not the book my agent wants, so he's given me his blessing to serialize it....
Tanzanite Review
I've been so caught up in the politics of 69 AD that I honestly thought I had already put upthis link. Last month, as part of the Historical Fiction Online Book of the Month, one of the many frequenters of that site posted a review on her own site, Tanzanite's...
Birthday Boy
Three years ago today, Jan and I stopped off at the hospital, and at around noon were introduced to a handsome young fellow who decided to lodge in our spare room. He's still there, and seems to enjoy our company. Moreover, he's more charming than ever, and...
Macbeth – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
There are perhaps three uber-famous speeches in Macbeth, but the one that is most often quoted is the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech. It's often taken as an existential lament, recited by actors and professors with a deep sorrowful intonation. That's...
Origin of the Capulet-Montague Feud
Since the publication of THE MASTER OF VERONA, this site has been reached every single day by someone Googling the terms "Capulet-Montague Feud." I want the piece to be easy to find, so I'm reposting it here. Enjoy! Early in 1999 I was directing Romeo & Juliet...
Thanks For My Life
I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was Julius Caesar. In high school, first it was Romeo & Juliet, which was cool only because we wasted a week watching the movie – the Zefferelli, not the DeCaprio version. The next...
Shakespearean Characters in MV
One of the questions in the interview over at Historical Novels was "How many Shakespearean characters are in THE MASTER OF VERONA?" Now, I've thought about how many plays I referenced, but I've never done a strict character count. So I...
Historical Novels Review
As one of the commenters in the Historical Fiction Online book-of-the-month discussion of THE MASTER OF VERONA, Margaret has been rather effusive in her praise. So much so that she wrote asking me for an interview. Short and sweet, she posted it a week ago over...
