Yesterday I launched my first Substack, The 18th Century Salonnière. This is a digital space to write about the historical research I am currently doing. The 18th Century Salonnière is an homage to the salon culture of the Enlightenment, the women who played an active role in hosting those salons, and the great minds who existed there. I focus mostly …
The Early Days in Five Points: Part 1
Greetings and thank you for visiting my blog. Today I am going to be discussing the Five Points, a poverty-stricken area in New York City of the nineteenth century. My work in progress, Mrs. Foxley’s Secret, opens up in a slum-like setting in 1826. My main character, Helen Barnet is living in poverty with her troubled father who is addicted …