The Victorians frequently used marcasites as substitutes for diamonds. Marcasite, also known as pyrite, was used for this purpose as early as the 1700s. Heliotrope, or bloodstone as the Victorians called, was used throughout the era. Bloodstone is rarely used in modern jewelry so discovering it...
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Toni:Fiction needs your own ideas; in non-fiction the facts are there, waiting for you to use. Since my novels are as authentic to the period as I can make them, but without the ‘gadzooks’ and ‘forsooths’, they take as much research as the non- fiction books. In both cases, ...
The best part of writing a book is learning new things, and intertwining the story around actual facts and characters. In Michael Saxon there is a fair amount of creative invention, yet the facts surrounding the battle at Hougoumont remain accurate as far as I can ascertain from historical ...