BACK STABBERS: The “Ton” of Kansas City
1Ellison keeps finding bodies, she also learns that family has more than one meaning.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Mystery & Detective • Tags: illegitemacy, society, stock brokers, Woman's Issues
Ellison keeps finding bodies, she also learns that family has more than one meaning.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Mystery & Detective • Tags: Amateur Sleuth, Class, distance, mystery, society, the 1970s, Women's Sleuths Issues
A good woman meets a troubled girl in 1970s Kansas City.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: 1940s, Alcoholism, anthology - single author, Dorothy Parker, short stories, society
The work of the late Dorothy Parker read by the late Elaine Stritch is a match made, possibly literally, in heaven.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, British Period Fiction • Tags: Class, Domestic Service, Service, society
A young woman is sent into “service” in the British countryside.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: friendship, Houston, Penguin Audio, socialites, society
Two Houston socialites in the 1950s struggle with life, parents, parenting and things only discussed in private.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, romantic elements, Women's Fiction • Tags: marriage in the early 20th century, society, Vassar, women's education, women's rights
A college co-ed marries for security and not for love. Art and love are freedoms that can be hard to find when security stifles creativity.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: aristocracy, Covent Garden, Regency era, Seven Dials, Shana Galen, society, Tantor, Tantor Media
Years ago, a young second-son put his love on the line and was rebuffed by a woman and her ducal dad. Will Bow Street’s knighted investigator, Sir Brook Derring, rescue the woman by whom he was spurned?
by fangswandsfairy • Feature, It's A History Thing • Tags: Debutante, Etiquette, presentation, Season, society, Ton
Everyone in historical romance talks about going to London in “the season.” I’ve always wondered when was this “Season?” Is is a particular “season” like spring, or winter? I looked it up so you don’t have to.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: aristocracy, Bronwen Evans, England, governess, Libertine Scholars, London, Napoleon, society, strong women, the ton, war hero, Waterloo, women's rights
An injured hero, unjustly accused of a crime and a wife on the lam discover each other in an action filled historical romance series starter.