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• Meet the heroine – Clara Lee

  
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  I thought I would take a break from weeping over the seventh chapter of The Ripper Book in order to chat a bit about my other heroine, Clara Lee whose life in Whitechapel is rather less fancy than that of Alice Redmayne with her knighted artist Papa, big house in Highbury and lovely dresses. Clara is actually based ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sewer power

  
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  Back when our streets were lit by gas lamps, we hadnt yet discovered the benefits of natural gas. As a result, most used town gas manufactured from coal. Given the trouble and expense involved, wouldnt it be better to find a more convenient, cheap source of gas power? Say, the very gas which was being vented unused ...
  3 weeks ago

• 1888 style

  
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  Day dress, French, c1889. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. I’m still hard at work on my novel set in 1888 but as I am having a bit of a break to do some research, I thought I would share some of it with you. Although the book is predominantly set in Whitechapel, some scenes are set in the well heeled ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book Five

  
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  Christ Church Spitalfields. Photo: my own. I’ve had some really really bad news this week about a family member that I’m very fond of and am having a bit of trouble digesting it. It’s been a time for quiet reflection, lots of tears and just generally giving in to my natural hermetic tendencies. As is usual ...
  4 weeks ago

• London: Legacy of Empire

  
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  The Legacy of Empire- At the height of the British Empire, London was the greatest city in the world. It wasn’t the prettiest (that was Paris or Vienna), arguably it wasn’t the most technologically advanced (Berlin was far outstripping it by the turn of the century) but it was London, the Port of the World and ...
  5 weeks ago

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