Halloween Fun

By Mary Winters | October 12, 2022 |

  The Victorians had many interesting Halloween traditions, including the mirror game. I first came across the game by noting all the images of young women staring into mirrors on Halloween greeting cards. What were they doing and why? After a little digging, I found different variations of the game, which was meant to predict…

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Agony Columns in the Victorian Era

By Mary Winters | September 19, 2022 |

Murder in Postscript releases March 28, 2023, and my amateur sleuth, Amelia Amesbury, writes a weekly column under the pseudonym Lady Agony. You might be asking yourself, why Lady Agony? Dear Reader, I’ll tell you. Murder in Postscript is set in London, England, in 1860. At the time, periodicals were being produced in record numbers…

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