Duchess and Lady head to Victorian England to start the Doves of New York series by Harper St. George.

Harper St George

About

Doves of New York

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Sources and Sites for Victorian Era Sexuality

Britannica - Victorian England’s Double Standards

Asa Briggs on Victorian England

Sources and Sites for Victorian Era Contraception

Atlas Obscura - 19th Century Women’s Secret Guide to Contraception

National Museum of Civil War Medicine - Mother’s Friend

If you want to be full of rage - How Anthony Comstock, Enemy to Women of the Gilded Age, Attempted to Ban Contraception

Early Example of a Contraceptive Sponge

Demisexuality

What is Demisexuality?

Why Demisexual is as valid as any other sexual orientation

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Duchess and Lady go to the Old West with Ms Bev’s Night Hawk!

Kanza People

The Kanza People

The Oklahoma Historical Society

Tribe that gave Kansas its name has reclaimed a big piece of its sacred heritage

Chinese Exclusion Act

Facing History

National Archives - Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

I would also feature something from the United States Office of the Historians but that article has been removed and I need to go through the WayBack Machine to access it.

Jim Beckworth (sometimes spelled Beckwourth)

From Enslaved African to Crow Chief

Jim Beckworth

Beckwourth

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Lady Sadie gets to make the Duchess read the first PsyChangeling!

Information about Nalini Singh

LadySadie’s first PsyChangeling review (March 2021!)

Biography

PsyChangeling Series

Spin Off/ Second Season of PsyChangeling - PsyChangling Trinity Series

Bonus Stories

GigiReads’ Guide to PsyChangeling

LadySadie’s Guide to PsyChangling - Part I and Part II

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Duchess Katie picked Ilona Andrews’ Burn for Me for Lady Sadie to read.

Show Notes

Duchess Katie’s Original Review of Burn for Me

Information About Ilona Andrews

Website

About Husband and Wife Writing Team

Hidden Legacy Series - Burn for Me is book one

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Spies, lies and wedding crashing - we read Diana Quincy’s From London With Love!

Show Notes

Francis Drake

This Dark Business - nonfiction book about Napoleonic spying.

Friends and Enemies by Christopher Gibbs - abstract of an academic paper, link to full academic paper as well.

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Two for One Novellas

Mrs Milner Gets a Kitchen by Jane Hadley

PTSD - history, diagnosis, USVA information

A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian

Boston Marriages

Ann Lister, “England’s First Lesbian”

Clandestine Queerness

Outhistory

QueerWomeninHistory

12 Women They Didn’t Tell You About in Queer History Class

LesbianHistoryArchives

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Enemies to lovers? Pirates? Absolutely bananas ride? Join us for The Pirate Lord by Sabrina Jeffries.

Piracy

Golden Age of Piracy

Infamous Pirates

Privateers in the War of 1812

True Crime Campfire, Episode Named: Black Flag: The Story of the Pirate Blackbeard

Sabrina Jeffries

Facts and Figures

Pirate Lord

All About

I didn’t know this about Sabrina Jeffries - but she is openly neurodivergent. Check out this link for more details about her why and book recommendations.

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A risky and risque romance of opposites with a background in radical reforms - join us for the The Charmer by Madeline Hunter.

Sources:

Further reading on women's property and independent rights in the UK.:

National Archive of the minutes of the debates.

Representation of All Peoples Act - first expanding in 1918 it to men over 21 and women over 30. In 1928, the age for voting for women dropped to 21. Both of these were expansions on the Reform Bill from 1832.

Rights of women in marriage and property - 1882. 51 years after Sophia would have appreciated it.

On the 1832 Reform Act:

Here is a whole lesson set on teaching What caused the 1832 Great Reform Act this is also just available with some stuff to read.

Just the facts can be read here The Great Reform Act of 1832

Madeline Hunter

Website

Background and Reading order on The Seducers Series

The Charmer

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