PinnedSusan WandsThe Lucrative Tours of the Highly Improper ActressToday’s lucrative tours headlined by the women musicians, Taylor Swift, Madonna, and Beyoncé, are reminiscent of the Highly Improper…·6 min read·Oct 17, 2023--1--1
PinnedSusan WandsThe Rivalry of the Dracula and Dorian Gray AuthorsThe story of Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, two Dubliner competitors who vied for the same girl, career, and acclaim·13 min read·Apr 28, 2022--3--3
PinnedSusan WandsFlorence Stoker, the woman who copyrighted DraculaFlorence Anne Lemon Balcombe was one of five daughters born to Lt. Col. James and Phillipa Balcombe in 1858 in Ireland. Even without a…·8 min read·Aug 30, 2021--4--4
Susan WandsVictorian “Mummy Reveal” PartiesThree thousand years ago, Egyptians preserved the dead through an embalming process led by their priests so that the departed might be…·6 min read·Oct 8, 2021----
Susan WandsYoshio Markino, the Japanese BohemianDuring the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the majority of landscape artists attending soirees and opening nights were young, white…·5 min read·Sep 8, 2021----
Susan WandsA Vespa in NYC during the Time of CovidWe 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…·10 min read·Aug 25, 2021--1--1
Susan WandsSir Henry Irving, the Actor Knight From NowhereThe first actor ever knighted was considered too tall and skinny to ever make any success of the dramatic roles in theatre repertoire.·7 min read·Aug 20, 2021----
Susan WandsJust Little Pieces of PaperHow a toy theatre became a major storytelling tool for a Victorian creator4 min read·Aug 18, 2021----
Susan WandsSherlock Holmes First Steps OnstageWilliam Gillette: “May I marry Holmes?” Arthur Conan Doyle: “You may marry him, or murder or do what you like with him.”·7 min read·Aug 17, 2021----
Susan WandsWomen 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…·6 min read·Aug 14, 2021--2--2
