Vote for women! Can she fight for freedom and for love? When chocolate heiress Violet Coombes is caught hanging her suffragette banner in a most shocking place, Adam Beaufort Esquire proposes a marriage of convenience! His good name will avert scandal for her family,...
Of a great heroine I mean to tell, And by what just degrees her titles swell, To Mrs Nelly grown, from cinder Nell. ~ Anonymous: A Panegyric on Mrs Nelly (17th century) There’s something about Nelly …. For centuries, Nell Gwynne has captured hearts and minds. What was...
An artist, a lady, a secret passion… ‘When Benedict Cole shuns her request for painting lessons, Lady “Cameo” Catherine Mary St. Clair takes matters into her own hands. She arrives at Benedict’s studio, only to be mistaken for a model!...
‘Why have we no grace for books, those spiritual repasts – a grace before Milton – a grace before Shakespeare – a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the Faeire Queen?’ ~ Charles Lamb Of late I’ve been thinking about how we read. It has...
The beautiful, romantic Pre-Raphaelite paintings are some of the most familiar artworks in the world. During the 19th century, the art and love lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of brilliant, free thinking young men, were considered scandalous. Their...
