Nellie Bly’s World – IN THE MAGDALEN’S HOME
New York World - Sunday, February 12, 1888 Nellie Bly’s Visit to an Institution for Unfortunate Women A Wicked Girl’s Chances for Reformation—How Poor Creatures Abuse a Noble Charity—Matron Burr’s Experiences—The Girl Who Befriended an Unlucky Cat—The Toboggan Slide...
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...
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Renaissance Review
Below is a review of THE MASTER OF VERONA by Michael Lohr, of Renaissance Magazine. It will appear in their upcoming issue. At their request, I have happily reproduced it here, but please do visit them for their many other reviews and articles. “Montibus in...
Lucy Pick review
Last week, Lucy Pick posted a really nice review of THE MASTER OF VERONA on her site. I'd reproduce it here, but I'd rather everyone stop by her blog and have a chance to nose around there for awhile. So - to it!
Historical Novels Review
In preparation for MV being the March BOTM at Historical Fiction Online, one of their contributors has posted a review of it at another site, HistoricalNovels.info. And once you're done reading that one, poke around the site for a few minutes - which will...
Book of the Month
I'm very pleased to announce that THE MASTER OF VERONA has been chosen as the Historical Fiction Online book-of-the-month for March, 2009. There was a lot of heavy voting, but at last my little tale won out. I'm quite proud, especially for the champions...
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THE SHOEMAKER’S SON – Notes
This story occurs, obviously, during Mariotto's exile to France following his marriage to Gianozza. The date, which is historical, places it between chapters 28 and 29 of THE MASTER OF VERONA. While this may seem as a mere ruse on my part to drag in yet...
THE SHOEMAKER’S SON – A Short Story
THE SHOEMAKER'S SONa Tale of Illyriawherein the HANDSOME KNIGHT discovers true LONGING Lyons, France1 October, 1316 The banners were so red they might have been made of actual flame. They snaked out, unfurling with a hearty crack before whipping back...
VARNISHED FACES – Afterword
For those keeping score, VARNISHED FACES falls between chapters 27 and 28 in THE MASTER OF VERONA, at the very beginning of the Fourth Act, entitled The Exiles. There are several reasons why this story pleases me. It fills in a few deficiencies in MV. We...
Verona Short Stories
A year ago I published two short stories through the now-defunct Amazon Shorts program. I had more in the pipe, but finding that pipe stoppered, I've decided to post them here, serially. The original intent behind these stories was to build up to the opening...
