The chairman turned to the secretary.
"I think it would be as well," he said,
"if we had the day-book to refer to upon this point .
–from "The Four-Fifteen Express" by
Amelia B. Edwards
Web sites
Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurour Victoriana
Dimes Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
The Gaslight page of adventure, mystery, and fantasy stories written between 1800 and 1919
A list of English surnames
Sidney Paget's original illustrations to the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Final Problem"
Sunrise/Sunset Calculator
Literary Resources: Victorian British
Sabbats and Esbats: Ritual and Lore
Hindu resources online
How Did Diverse Activists Shape the Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform Movement?
Writer's Resources for the 19th Century
Books
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. America's Best Comics. Hard cover edition collecting first comic book series ISBN: 1-56389-665-6.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool. Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 0-671-88236-8
The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana: A Universal Dictionary of the State of Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes and his Biographer John H. Watson, M.D. by Jack Tracy. Avenel Books. [Out of print- not be be confused with another Encyclopedia Sherlockiana published in the late nineties]
A Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England by Kristine Hughes. Writer's Digest Books. ISBN: 0-89879-812-4
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A tale from Johnny the chimney sweep
with whom the players are not yet acquaintedThe tale of how Kid Rocket saved Christmas
a Christmas Ghost StoryA Practical Guide to Clothing for Ladies of Action
Miss Sinclair and Miss Bertilde pass on tips
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of this page copyright 2002 by Gene Breshears. All Rights Reserved.
Amelia B. Edwards was a 19th Century journalist, novelist, egyptologist,
and suffragette. "The Four-Fifteen Express" was published
in ROUTLEDGE'S ANNUAL, 1867. Read a book! Smallwood's 8-day,
16-face clock first published in Scientific American, 1892.