Every issue of Victorian Times Quarterly is a treasure-trove of hand-picked, original Victoriana from British and American magazines of the 1800's. You'll find a wealth of ideas on decorating your home or table in the Victorian style, plus delicious recipes (perfect for hosting your own authentic Victorian tea!) and inspiring craft projects and patterns. Plus, enjoy whimsical stories and poetry, beautiful illustrations, pictorial features and rib-tickling cartoons. Taking you from the royal palace to the humble country cottage, every issue brings you a unique, first-hand look at Victorian life. Victorian Times Quarterly is your ticket to explore -- and enjoy -- the beautiful, elegant, and ever-changing Victorian world.In this issue: First-Hand Account of Victorian Working Women • Lightships: Floating Lighthouses • The Victorian Poacher • Birds of Spring • Furnishing a Dollhouse • Aunt Mehitable's Letters from Washington • Easter Eggs • Gillyflowers • Lore of Precious Gems • Grant Allen's Moorland Idylls • Traveling from London to Chicago by Steamer & Rail • Confederate Make-Shifts • Prize-Winning Decorated Bicycles • London's Home for Lost Dogs • The Modern Servant • Repousse Work on Pewter • A Ramble Through Nebraska • Wedding Breakfasts • Folklore of Wedding Flowers • A "Boomopolis" Wedding • Tips on Writing Letters • The Cheerful Robin • London vs. New York • Britain's Victorian Cave-Dwellers • School Life in Toronto... plus household hints, recipes, poetry and more! Author, book-lover, cat-lover, world traveler, and collector of Victorian magazines and ephemera, Moira Allen knows how to spin a phrase to make her life sound a lot more exciting than it is! While all of the above are true, she actually spends most of her day hunched over a computer keyboard - or a scanner. Allen has loved old magazines since childhood, when she discovered her family's stash of vintage Life Magazines and Saturday Evening Posts in a closet. She was probably the only kid in high school to actually have a collection of Victorian fonts and page decorations - a special treat from when her commercial artist dad would let her tag along on a visit to the art supply store. In England, Allen made the thrilling discovery that one could acquire magazines that were much, much older than that vintage box of Lifes - and the rest, as they say, is history. Literally. Allen now curates a collection of thousands of articles from Victorian periodicals on her VictorianVoices.net website, and produces the monthly Victoriana magazine "Victorian Times." She is a professional writer, with several published books (yep, right here on Amazon). She has lived in England and Germany, and says even her cat has frequent flyer miles (or should). She currently lives in Maryland with her husband and that same well-traveled cat.