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Writing Research - Victorian Era

In historical fiction it is important to be accurate and the only way to do so is to research the era. What is highly recommended by many writers is to write your story first. While writing your story, mark the parts that you’re not sure are correct and then do the research after you are done. This is to prevent you from doing unnecessary research that may not be relevant to your work. You want to spend your time wisely! Or you can just research as you go, it’s really whatever works for you since there isn’t a “wrong” way to research.

To begin, the Victorian era of the British history (and that of the British Empire) formally begins in 1837, which was the year Victoria became Queen and ends in 1901 – the year of her death. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain. Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. [1]

Names

1000 Most Popular Victorian Names

Victorian Era Names, A Writer’s Guide

Victorian Darlings - British Baby Names

Society & Life

Victorian Society

The Victorians: Life and Death

The Victorian Working Life

A Woman’s Place in 19th Century Victorian History

Victorian Occupations: Life and Labor in the Victorian Period

Flirting and Courting Rituals of The Victorian Era

Victorian Working Women

Victorian Life

Glimpses of Victorian Life

Victorian Rituals & Traditions

Victorian Etiquette

Etiquette, Manners and Morals

Almanac - Etiquette and Manners Victorian Era

Victorian Britain - Children at Work

Children in the Victorian Age

Collège Sainte-Barbe - Children in the Victorian Age

University of Victoria - Victorian Childhood

Museum of London - What Was Life Like for Children?

Victoria and Albert Museum - Victorian Children (PDF)

University of Strathclyde - Victorian Children

Daily Life in the Victorian Era

How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died

How did the Victorians mourn?

The House of Mourning - Victorian Mourning & Funeral Customs in the 1890s

Ideals of Womanhood in Victorian Britain

Etiquette of a Victorian Lady

Going to School in Victorian Times

History of Working Class Mothers in Victorian England

Life of the Victorian Woman

The Working Class and The Poor

Victorian Women’s Work

Needlework, Knitting and Crohet

Victorian Etiquette - Births and Christenings

Victorian Ballroom Dancing Etiquette

Ballroom Manners and Etiquette

How Prudish were the Victorians really?

Gresham College - The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality

Victorian and Albert Museum - Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century

Why were the Victorians so crazy about public spaces, like parks?

Victorian Homes and Gardens

The Shops and Shopkeepers

Victorian Christmas

The History of British Winters

Top Ten Pet Peeves, or Horse-Related Mistakes to Avoid in your Story

Marriage in the Victorian Era

Victorian Wedding Guide

Husbands and Wives in the Victorian Era

Victorian Technology

History - Victorian Technology

Gresham College - The Victorians: Religion and Science

Household Management and Servants of the Victorian Era

BBC News - Servants: A Life below Stairs

Life as a Servant in Victorian England

What Servants would you find in a Victorian household?

The Servant’s Quarters in 19th Century Houses Like Downton Abbey

Victorian Domestic Servant  Hierarchy and Wages

Australian National University - The Victorian Merchant-Elite and the Chinese Question (PDF)

Project MUSE - The Chinese in Britain, 1800-Present: Economy, Transnationalism, Identity

Untold London - The Chinese In Limehouse 1900 - 1940

JSTOR - The Journal of Negro History: Black Ideals of Womanhood in the Late Victorian Era

H‑Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online - Black Victorians

Wikipedia - Black British

History Today - Black People in Britain: The Eighteenth Century

University College London - Black Londoners 1800-1900

The Guardian - The Black Victorians: Astonishing Portraits Unseen for 120 Years

BBC News - Short History of Immigration: The 1800s

Commerce

British Money

Wages and Cost of Living in the Victorian Era

Pricing and Money

Victorian Money

Cost of Living in Victorian England

How Much Is That - Calculating Prices Throughout the Years

Entertainment & Food

Victorian Menu - Cooking and Recipes

A Time Traveler’s Guide to Victorian Era Tea Etiquette (PDF)

The Victorian Pantry

Victorian Era Food Recipes

Victorians Food Facts - Cookbook

Food, Recipes and Tea

Victorian Tea Time Recipes - Sandwich and Cheese Straws

Victorian Era Recipes

Victorian Food, Party & Recipes

Victorian Dinner Parties

19th Century Food and Drink

Victorian Cooking: Upperclass Dinner

eHow - Weekly Meals Eaten in the Victorian Era

Victorian Dinner Parties

What did the Victorians have for breakfast?

Victorian Ladies Who Lunch, Or: Luncheon Places and Tea Rooms for Ladies

History Magazine - What Time is Dinner?

What the Poor Ate

The Arts in Victorian Britain

Victorian Art, Literature and Music 

Music, Theater, and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain

Victorian Entertainments - We Are Amused

19th Century Hobbies and Daily Activities

Victorian Pastimes and Sports

Victorian Fun and Games & Other Pastimes

19th Century British and Irish Authors

Gresham College - The Victorians: Art and Culture

What is up with the depictions of half naked Victorian era women fencing in artworks?

Hygiene, Health & Medicine

Health and Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century

Victorian Diseases and Medicine

Health & Medicine in the 19th Century

19th Century Diseases

Victorian Health

Five Horrible Diseases You Might Have Caught in Victorian England

Alcohol and Alcoholism in Victorian England

A Look Back at Old-Time Medicines

Victorian London’s Drug Culture

Victorian - Medical Breakthroughs

Victorian Hospitals

Victorian - Baths and Washhouses

Medicine and Health in Victorian Times

The Victorian Revolution in Surgery

Victorian Science and Medicine

Victorian Health and Medicine

Women’s Health

Questions about Victorian Women Menstruation

Victorian View on Menstruation

Reusable Menstrual Products

Childbirth and Birth Control in the 19th Century

British Maternal Mortality in the 19th and early 20th Centuries

The Historical Horror of Childbirth

Contraception: Past, Present and Future Factsheet

History of Contraception in America, 19th Century Artifacts

UCLA School of Public Health - Anesthesia and Queen Victoria

Science Museum - John Snow (1813-58)

Science Museum - Chloroform

University of Liverpool - The Demography of Victorian England and Wales (PDF)

Gresham College - The Victorians: Life and Death

Colton History Society - Village History in Staffordshire, England (Victorian Health)

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment -  Do you have anything about an asthmatic in the Victorian era?

Science Museum - Nerve Tonics

The Pennington Edition - Victorian Remedies

Fashion

Dressing the Victorian Woman

Victorian Hats

Victorian Jewelry

Victorian Hairstyles & Headdresses

Hair of the Nineteenth Century

How to Dress for Travel in 1852

Victorian Men’s Clothing

How to Dress Like a Victorian Man from the 1860s

How to Dress Victorian

Victorian Era Fashion

Royal Fashion

Victorian Fashion

Boy’s 1860s Fashions

Dressing the Victorian Girl of the 1890s

Victoria’s Real Secret – The Victorians Knew Underwear

How to Undress a Victorian Lady in Your Next Historical Romance

Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 1, luxurious silk hose, colorful stockings, & socks

Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 2, Chemises and camisoles

Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 3, Pantalettes, pantalets, drawers, and bloomers

Victorian Ladies Shoes & Boots

Victorian Swimwear

Victorian Men and Woman Swim Wear

Dialogue

Victorian Language

The Language of Flowers

Victorian London - Words and Expressions

A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909)

Victorian Slang

19th Century Swears

Victorian Slang - Lower Class and Underworld

Cliches and Saying of the Victorian Era

The Dictionary of Victorian London

Justice & Crimes

How Safe Was Victorian London?

Crime and the Victorian Household

Danger inside the Train: Crime on Victorian Railways

Railway Mania

How Widespread Were Concerns About Prostitution?

Fallen Women

The Great Social Evil: Victorian Prostitution

University of Massachusetts at Boston - The Great Social Evil: Victorian Prostitution

BBC History - Child Prostitutes: How the age of consent was raised to 16

University of Minnesota - Victorian Era: There are Two Kinds of Women…

University of London - The Real Rippers Street: Pathology, Policing, and Prostitution in Victorian London

University of Brighton - The Fetishization and Objectification of the Female Body in Victorian Culture

University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law - Homosexuality and the Law in England

Sexual Violence in Nineteenth Century England

Victorian Poisoners

Crime and the Victorians

Victorian Crime

Victorian Crime & Punishment

Victorian Women Criminals’ Records Show Harsh Justice of 19th Century

Sentences and Punishments

Types of Punishments - Hanging

Types of Punishments - Imprisonment

Victorian Children in Trouble with the Law

Child Prisoners in Victorian Times

Victorian Crime

Victorian-era Serial Killers

The Development of a Police Force

The Metropolitan Police

A Work-Life History of Policemen in Victorian and Edwardian England (PDF)

How The Victorians Cracked Crime

Tracking a 19th-Century Serial Killer

Schaffer Library of Drug Policy - The Myth of the Opium Den in Late Victorian England

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If you’re a writer, please reblog or like and I’ll follow you

I need more writers/ Writeblrs to follow, so send me a message, like, or reblog and I’ll be happy to follow you😄.

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My tl is really dead rn so if ur a writeblr who writes fantasy, urban fantasy, anything with kings and queens and lots of fighting and shit (doesn’t have to have all of these elements …btw!)

That’s my jam, reblog so i can follow u and check ur rlly cool shit out

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Relationship Themes

thanks to @ink-nguyen for the tag!! let's get some boys in here.

I'm doing this for Saturn and Elion from CoS. bold is in-text!

height difference | mutual pining | first kiss | first love | wedding | in-jokes | lgbt+ | family disapproves | friend disapproves | would die for each other | fake relationship | arranged wedding | cuddlers | pda friendly | and they were room mates | holding hands | secret relationship | opposing worldviews | opposing personalities | opposing goals | getting a pet | have kids| want kids | grow old together | relationship failures | rests head on shoulder | share a bed | token dummies | relationship doubts | they have a song | first date | share a jacket (cloak??) | sharing a blanket | mutual interests | study buddies| bathing together | crash into hello | accidental nudity | laundry | same hobbies | cooking for each other | big fancy gala | sibling rivalry (???) | hair stroking | dancing | laying in the grass | watching stars together | watching the other sleep | shared values | friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | lovers to enemies | childhood friends | slow burn | love triangle | toxic relationship |sitting on each other’s laps | can’t be together | hugs | forehead touches | neck kisses | car/motorbike rides | compliments | nicknames | falling asleep together | late night talks | gifts

I'm tagging @poetatertot bc Laini already snagged my other writelbr friend LMAO

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On Writing PTSD (worksheet included!)

I decided it was time to make this post because I’m sick and tired of seeing people write this wrong. I don’t know if it’s the way media portrays PTSD or just people not spending the time to research or ask advice from those (like myself) who have actually been diagnosed with this illness.

CW: I will be discussing abuse in this post, so I’m going to be sticking it under a read more. If mentions and discussions of abuse aren’t your cup of tea, then it’s best to steer clear.

Keep reading

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WRITEBLR INBOX MEME 001. send me a positive adjective and I’ll tell you about a character from my wip that suits it the most. 

━━━  adaptable

━━━  adventurous

━━━  affectionate

━━━  ambitious

━━━  amiable

━━━ compassionate

━━━ considerate

━━━ courageous

━━━ courteous

━━━ diligent

━━━ empathetic

━━━ exuberant

━━━ frank

━━━ generous

━━━ gregarious

━━━ impartial

━━━ intuitive

━━━ inventive

━━━ passionate

━━━ persistent

━━━ philosophical

━━━ practical

━━━ rational

━━━ reliable

━━━ resourceful

━━━ sensible

━━━ sincere

━━━ sympathetic

━━━ witty

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my single best creative decision for Coat of Scales was giving all the buff dudes Empowering Tiddy Armor

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hello! I'm here for the positiveblr giveaway ♡ my writing blog is @hissprince, and while I don't have much on there rn, I do have my elevator pitch for my current WIP, Coat of Scales: "When a crown prince is framed for murder and exiled from his kingdom, he sets out on a journey to reclaim his throne at any cost. But there is more to power than strength alone—and for Elion Veris, a silver tongue is the greatest weapon of all." thanks for this lovely idea!!

first of all, your blog title on hissprince made me LAUGH. too relatable. you and @marniebalboa both have a sort of exiled prince trope, and i really love it! some people think of tropes as bad, but it’s so important to realize that tropes are made for interpretation. you can always bring something new to the story! i’m so curious about what the last line about his silver tongue means!! definitely a good hook! good luck on your mysterious wip!

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Like/Reblog if you’re a writeblr!

I wanna fill my dash with all your awesome work!

Especially like/reblog if you post:

Nanowrimo

Writing tips

Writing inspiration

Aesthetics/moodboards

Fantasy

Mystery

Worldbuilding things!

[I follow with my main blog, black-widoh]

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Reblog and Tag with your ocs' Names

<b>And then for every name you get in your askbox, you must fill out the following character profile for said oc:</b>

Full Name: Gender and Sexuality: Pronouns: Ethnicity/Species: Birthplace and Birthdate: Guilty Pleasures: Phobias: What They Would Be Famous For: What They Would Get Arrested For: OC You Ship Them With: OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: Talents and/or Powers: Why Someone Might Love Them: Why Someone Might Hate Them: How They Change: Why You Love Them:

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Chapter XV Excerpt

        Saturn had been a blade against Elion’s neck since the moment they’d met, but this—this was a game Elion knew how to play. In Fille, words had been his venom, the dagger under his cloak, but here they had another kind of power. Here, he could speak sweetly, dripping golden honey from his tongue and spilling it into tender compliments and gentle reassurances, and people lapped it up like they were starved for it. They believed everything he said; why shouldn’t they? He was just a boy, not even twenty. He held sincere promises between petal-soft lips.

        How could something so beautiful ever be cruel?

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hello hi hey hello! i’m Lynette and i used to be prettydangereux but we all deserve a chance to rebrand. i’ve been writing on tumblr for a while as a roleplayer, and i’m really excited to start working on some my own creative pieces as a writeblr. i’ve been writing across a wide assortment of genres, but the ones i tend to return to again and again are contemporary and romance. 

so it seems i’ve appeared at a lovely and welcoming period called positiveblr, and i’d love to join in on the fun! let’s have a little giveaway! to participate, please:

reblog this post!

send me a message with the name of your work (or works) in progress. you can link me to your wip page or tag, or just send a short description or excerpt. 

and follow my blog! (okay, this is optional, but highly encouraged)

i’ll be reading everyone’s wip’s that gets sent in (or at trying to!) and giving a compliment to every single one. in addition, i’ll be making at least three gifts, ranging from moodboards to character graphics to mini-playlists for works that i am especially excited about!

is she taking on too much all at once? the world may never know. don’t forget to reblog, and i can’t wait to get to know everyone and their wip’s!

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hello! ♡ for the positiveblr giveaway, my elevator pitch: "When a crown prince is framed for murder and exiled from his kingdom, he sets out on a journey to reclaim his throne at any cost. But there is more to power than strength alone—and for Elion Veris, a silver tongue is the greatest weapon of all." my writing blog is @hissprince, and I look up to @ink-nguyen a lot. they're so sweet, and they're a great editor, too!!

OHHH! Your pitch has everything I look for in a book! The drama, the politicl intrigue, the witty prince! Also: this is a really solid pitch. You worded it so so SO perfectly! If I saw this in a store, I’d buy the book in a heartbeat.

Do you have a tag list going? Because I need to be put on it, like, yesterday!

I follow @ink-nguyen as well! They seem so nice! 

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Giveaway: free compliments!

In celebration of #Positiveblr, I want to get to know (and follow) as many writeblrs as possible. I saw another person doing something similar to this, so why not?

How to enter:

Reblog this

Send me an ask with: 

your elevator pitch (asks only allow so many characters, so see my example below) 

a link to your page

writeblr you look up to

I’ll look through every WIP that makes its way into my inbox and tell you what I like about your work. You’ll get a free follow too! 

Here’s my wip’s elevator pitch, as an example:

In this Mexican-inspired fantasy, a necromantic prince seeks to win the approval of his people by unifying his country and its ancient rival. Step one: break the curse rotting their heirs from the inside out.

I’m looking forward to meeting y’all and hearing about your work!

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I just saw a writing advice post abt the “show don’t tell” thing and it was good at first but then it deadass turned “the sun rose over the city” into “Yellow light spilled over the streets, soaking the grit from the rainbow puddles into the air.” but even longer and I’m just gonna say it right off the bat, sometimes you don’t need more words. Sometimes you can just say “[x] felt [y]” straight up and spare your reader from having to skip over your sudden need to jack off to your own vocabulary

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Remember to Change Paragraphs When….

•A new character comes along

•A new event happens

•A new idea is introduced

•The setting changes

•A new person is speaking

•Time moves forward or backwards a lot

•The “camera” moves

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I wanted to do a bit of a better job of this, so here’s a proper re-introduction.

Hello writeblr! My name is Marina, but my friends call me Marnie and I hope you will too! I’m a YA fantasy and #ownvoices author. Currently, I’m working on my debut novel which is heavily inspired by my Mexican heritage and my interest in witchcraft. 

I’m in my 20s and right now I’m bedridden due to a severe back injury. It gets a bit lonely here, so I’d love to make more friends to talk writing and other things with! I’m following back all other writeblrs right now. 

Let me gush over your works with you! 

I’m really looking forward to meeting you! Please feel free to drop a like/reblog/comment and I’ll come give you a follow.