Category Archives: History

Posts and pages with historical content.

Dragon Lady chapter 7 is available

“Visitors,” the seventh chapter of The Dragon Lady of Stockbridge: A Tale of Magic in the Gilded Age, is now up at this link. Who is the madman lurking in the parlor? Is Rebecca’s party a smashing success? If you’ve not … Continue reading

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The Berkshires in 1886

The Dragon Lady of Stockbridge is set in the Berkshires in 1886. But just where are the Berkshires, and what were they like in 1886? There’s an old English county called Berkshire. “Berk-” comes from a Celtic word meaning hilly, … Continue reading

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