Hello! I was just wondering if anyone would happen to know anything about wound care towards the end of the regency period, round about 1820. I have two characters, both medical students at Oxford University (so they have some medical training/knowledge), one of whom has received a deep cut on the chest from a sharp ring in a fight - the kind that ( Read more... )

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Fanfic, set in the British Regency, slash pairing, letters between a gentleman and the man he sends out to buy books.  The gentleman is well-off, and the man is from his household, so there isn't an issue with costs for paper, ink, or postage. Neither of them are at all overtly sentimental,  and I love writing covert-declarations-and- ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! I'm writing a story where two characters from the UK go on a trip (separately) over the Christmas holidays to Nassau and meet each other. I have never been to Nassau myself, especially not during the holidays, and I just wanted to know what sorts of decorating people there do. Both in public spaces as well as in hotels/resorts. I've ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is highly specific and I'm having a hard time googling it (seriously, somebody up there is going to think I'm planning identity theft by now, for how often I googled "false identity during wwi", "soldiers swapping identity", "mistaken identity" "passport during WWI" and so on). My question is: How hard or easy would it have been for ( Read more... )

Hello peeps.

I turn toward you because I have quite a specific question about mourning rules in Victorian London, and Google hasn't been of much help (too specific of a question, I guess.)

Character A mother dies quite suddenly. "Mother" is survived by her husband and two daughters, let's call them A & B. Upper class family, not aristocratic.
How long ( Read more... )

I'll admit I'm at a loss for how to Google this ( Read more... )

Hello, you have all been so helpful with my prior books. I'm a bit stuck on the new one ( Read more... )

I'm working on a story set post-WWI in England, set in 1919 and I have done a lot of research and found a lot of things, but some things remain quite hazy for me ( Read more... )

I've been trying to focus on one of my characters' backstory lately and am having a hard time figuring out the finer details. He grows up during the American Wild West era; his father was Chinese and his mother was a white woman. I need to work out the finer details of how his parents even met but I've been puzzled with how he would be treated ( Read more... )

I'll put this behind a cut in case people don't want to read medical stuff.

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