Be You Blithe and Bonny

I read a comment recently that Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic horror story Rebecca is the same story as Jane Eyre. So I had to think ab...

I just finished reading an anthology of short stories called Jane Austen Made Me Do It , edited by Laurel Ann Nattress and published back in...

In researching my Selgrath family, I think I might have found yet another troubled loner. (I have been researching Selgraths and their kin i...

As an antidote to the extreme heat of August and the unrelenting smoke of wildfires here in the western U.S., I have just reread Jane and th...

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories: A Hercule Poirot Collection with Foreword by Charles Todd The short stories show Poirot at hi...

Elisabetha Schmelzer, the adventurous daughter of Georg Schmelzer and Eva Kihm, went over to the “enemy” after the town was conquered by Nap...