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The Lucrative Tours of the Highly Improper Actress

Today’s lucrative tours headlined by the women musicians, Taylor Swift, Madonna, and Beyoncé, are reminiscent of the Highly Improper…

Oct 17, 2023

The Lucrative Tours of the Highly Improper Actress

Oct 17, 2023

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The Rivalry of the Dracula and Dorian Gray Authors

The story of Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, two Dubliner competitors who vied for the same girl, career, and acclaim

Apr 28, 2022

The Rivalry of the Dracula and Dorian Gray Authors

Apr 28, 2022

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Florence Stoker, the woman who copyrighted Dracula

Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe was one of five daughters born to Lt. Col. James and Phillipa Balcombe in 1858 in Ireland. Even without a…

Aug 30, 2021

Florence Stoker, the woman who copyrighted Dracula

Aug 30, 2021

Victorian “Mummy Reveal” Parties

Three thousand years ago, Egyptians preserved the dead through an embalming process led by their priests so that the departed might be…

Oct 8, 2021

Victorian “Mummy Reveal” Parties

Oct 8, 2021

Yoshio Markino, the Japanese Bohemian

During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the majority of landscape artists attending soirees and opening nights were young, white…

Sep 8, 2021

Yoshio Markino, the Japanese Bohemian

Sep 8, 2021

A Vespa in NYC during the Time of Covid

We got our Vespa in 2006 when my husband came back from touring and needed to commute from our upper west side apartment to the Brooklyn…

Aug 25, 2021

A Vespa in NYC during the Time of Covid

Aug 25, 2021

Sir Henry Irving, the Actor Knight From Nowhere

The first actor ever knighted was considered too tall and skinny to ever make any success of the dramatic roles in theatre repertoire.

Aug 20, 2021

Sir Henry Irving, the Actor Knight From Nowhere

Aug 20, 2021

Just Little Pieces of Paper

How a toy theatre became a major storytelling tool for a Victorian creator

Aug 18, 2021

Just Little Pieces of Paper

Aug 18, 2021

Sherlock Holmes First Steps Onstage

William Gillette: “May I marry Holmes?” Arthur Conan Doyle: “You may marry him, or murder or do what you like with him.”

Aug 17, 2021

Sherlock Holmes First Steps Onstage

Aug 17, 2021

Women artists from Stieglitz galleries — the fight to be paid

“Dear Mr. Stieglitz- I wonder where you are!! I want some money for Christmas! I wonder if you got Mrs. Busches’ money for “The Moon”? Can…

Aug 14, 2021

Women artists from Stieglitz galleries — the fight to be paid

Aug 14, 2021

Susan Wands

Susan Wands

Susan Wands writer, tarot reader, actor — I write about history, paranormal incidents, & driving in NYC on my Vespa.

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