American – Author Adrienne Morris

Yes, the Irish population loved their bicycles and sewing machines, but the world loved Madame Demorest. Maybe it’s true that women were slaves to their horrible husbands and to a society that looked upon business women with disdain in the 19th century, but Nell Demorest didn’t let that stop her. By odd coincidence she grew…

Adrienne Morris

September 4, 2014

Books I’ve Known and Loved, Men, Saratoga, United States History, Women

19th century, 19th century magazines, American, Books, business women, Demorest Monthly, Fashion

Loving the Brits and Finding an American Voice

http://theamericanscholar.org/voices-of-a-nation/#.U3YR2yhAg_g http://www.neoamericanist.org/review/anglophilia-deference-devotion-and-antebellum-america and a beautiful art blog full of 19th century images perfect for research and awe: http://b-womeninamericanhistory19.blogspot.com/2013/10/19c-americans-in-their-grand-victorian.html

Adrienne Morris

May 17, 2014

19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational, Writing

19th century, 19th century American writers, American, American Studies, Anglophiles, Art, England, finding your writing voice, historical fiction, Research, Writers

Tag: American

QUOTE: “Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Idle Hours

Flannery O’Connor: “Oh God please make my mind clear. Please make it clean . . . Please help me get down under things and find where You are.”

Artist: John Henry Twachtman

Books I’ve Known and Loved

Loving the Brits and Finding an American Voice