The year is 1859, the place NYC. My character was seduced and abandoned by her wealthy suitor and thrown out of the house when her father realized the marriage he'd been counting on wasn't going to happen. (The suitor was of higher social standing, so the girl's family weren't able to insist the wedding take place.) And of course she's found ( Read more... )

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I'm looking for information concerning Victorian Honeymoon's during the Raj. My characters are an English Army Captain and an upper middle-class Anglo-Indian (modern interpretation) woman who is being fostered by an Army General with East India Company connections.

While I've founds heaps of information about Victorian Weddings -

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Hello ^^ So, I'm writing this fanfiction where the main character is an upper-class girl. She is 10-11 at the beginning of the story, which probably takes place in the late 1850s ( Read more... )

Setting: 1830-1870 Central Europe (France, Germany, Austria, and Bohemia mostly ( Read more... )

Setting: A Nevada miner's camp in the 1850s ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story set in the California Gold Rush (the waning years), and one of my characters is a hired killer. He's been tracking a couple men for quite a while, and they've gone up into the mountains, alone. He follows them. Once he's killed them - how does he prove it? I know scalping was related to bounties, but that won't work to prove ( Read more... )

I've been googling all day - too many terms to mention (Gold rush weapons, 49ers, 49er weapons (the NFL is a scary league), 1855 guns, gun history, various gun brands, etc.), too many paths followed, and too much partial information for my brain to process ( Read more... )

Hello, wonderful people! Yes, I am still working on THE STORY THAT WILL NOT DIE, and now I'm getting into the nitty-gritty of the last part. Thanks, everyone, for all of the great answers about rebellion, poison, coitus au cheval, etc.

My latest questions:
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Place: United States, mostly in the West - exact location is flexible ( Read more... )

Would interior doors -- bedroom doors, bathroom doors etc. -- of a middle-to-upper-class house in Victorian England have locks? (Specifically, the counties of Surrey and East Sussex in the 1850s, if it matters.)

(Attempted Googles: door locks 1800s, door locks victorian era, interior door locks 1800s, interior door locks victorian era)