Evangeline Holland
About me
I was raised on both coasts and straight down the middle of America, where the cobblestone streets of Old Town Alexandria, the wild prairies and outlaws of Kansas, and the rolling hills of San Francisco inspired my thirst for history. Luckily, I was able to grow up and continue slake this passion with the best job in the world: writing historical fiction. I live with my family in Northern California with incredibly possessive and territorial cat, a perpetually disastrous kitchen, and a house full of books.
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From my website
Elizabeth Robins Pennell on A Perfect Breakfast, 1900
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, an American biographer, food and art critic, and traveler who settle in London with her artist husband, Joseph Pennell, had a weakness for eating, cookery, and cookbooks. By the time of her death in 1936, she had accumulated a collection of over 400 cookbooks, all of which…
Before & After in a Birmingham slum
The late Victorian and Edwardian eras were the epoch of slum clearances. Philanthropists, Fabians, and the newfangled city councils were determined to stamp out poverty with action as opposed to donating sums to charities and hoping it would reach those in need. Yet, the process of clearing tenements and building…
Interview & Giveaway with Allison Rushby, author of The Heiresses
Remember this really fun serial novel I mentioned last week? Luckily for interested readers, today is its paperback release, and Allison Rushby has stopped by for a quick Q&A and is giving away a chic 1920s-inspired scarf. In Allison Rushby’s Heiresses, three triplets—estranged since birth—are thrust together in glittering 1926…