When the dog days of summer come around, the prospect of relaxing and playing on beautiful beaches is highly anticipated. The laws of “Jim Crow” (the colloquial name for the dizzying array of prohibitions and restrictions placed on black and white interaction from roughly 1896 to 1954/1964) meant that African Americans were often barred from …
Tag: 20th century
Early 20th Century Historical Fiction – 2014
I’m back with a few current and upcoming releases that will appeal to lovers of early 20th century history and historical fiction! The centenary of WWI has heralded a good-sized portion of books set during this period. A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, …
The End of an Era…Or Was it?
With the declarations of War in August of 1914, the epoch alternately known as the Edwardian age, La Belle Epoque, or more ominously, fin de siècle, ended with—literally—a bang. Nearly one hundred years after its conclusion, WWI appears a preventable tragedy, or a baffling piece of history, and is mourned for the loss of “innocence” …