Downton Abbey: Nursing & Military Hospitals on the Home Front
byPerhaps due to poetic license, or historical media hearsay (i.e. inaccuracies that become “fact” due to continuous repetition in TV, movies, and literature), the…
Professions
The Construction of a Couture House
byI’ve just begun another marathon of The House of Eliott (which has lit a new fire beneath a plot I’d thought long burnt out),…
The Courtesan
byBelle Epoque France was relatively free of the hypocrisy of Edwardian England, and there, the courtesan flourished. The exploits, the rivalries, the fashion, the…