Zoë Archer was kind enough to send an ARC of her Steampunk Romance, Warrior, and needless to say, I loved it. With The Blades of the Rose, Archer takes the best bits of romance, action, adventure, history, and science fiction and turns them on its head. I enjoyed Warrior so much, I had to know [...[...]
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August 16th, 2010 - 9:00 am § in Books, Vintage Fiction
Vintage Review: In the Bishop’s Carriage
Note from Evangeline: I’ve been a fan of Melody’s review blog, Redeeming Qualities, for a while. If you recall an earlier vintage review I wrote for this site, owning a Sony Reader opened the doors to a lot of forgotten fiction published during the Edwardian period. This is where Melody&[...]
July 29th, 2010 - 4:42 pm § in African American, Books
An Era of Progress and Promise
I want to thank Rebecca Hyman, Reference and Outreach Librarian, and Lisa A. Gregory, Digital Projects Liaison, for their much appreciated assistance and patience with my numerous attempts to read this e-book! This book, An Era of Progress and Promise, was compiled by W.N. Hartshorn of Clifton, Mass[...]
June 25th, 2010 - 7:00 am § in Books
Presenting Edwardian Press
To further enhance your experience at Edwardian Promenade, I am going to put together short ebooks comprising both original content and reprints of articles and snippets I’ve discovered over the course of researching the Edwardian era. Some of the short ebooks may derive from posts on the webs[...]
June 7th, 2010 - 3:12 pm § in Books
Summer Reads
Kick back this summer and be swept away to another time with the following books: buy from: Amazon | Borders | B & N | Indiebound | Powell’s[...]
May 3rd, 2010 - 7:30 am § in Books
Online Resources: British Parliament
A few helpful primary resources that give a peek into Parliament during the Edwardian era (click on the titles to read online): The House of Commons The House of Commons from Within Gentlemen of the House of Commons The Procedure of the House of Commons The Inner Life of the House of Commons “[...]
April 7th, 2010 - 7:53 am § in Books
Coming Soon from Shire Books
Shire Books has been gracious enough to send me a few wonderful titles relevant to Edwardian Promenade, and as I browsed their July-December 2010 catalog, I was excited by the number of upcoming releases I thought would interest my readers. In July, we have The London Underground by Andrew Emmerson.[...]
Found in Google Books
I own a ton of Baedeker Handbooks (paid a pretty penny for a few of them) and now I find that they’ve been uploaded to Google Books! Take a trip through Great Britain of 1901, Berlin in 1910, Austria-Hungary before WWI, or the United States, Cuba, and Alaska in 1909. Travel around the Night Si[...]
