My first Quaker Midwife Mystery came out last week from Midnight Ink, and I've been all over cyberspace talking about it: here, here, here, and plenty of other places.
Today I thought I'd just list a bunch of my favorite historical reference books, the ones I keep close at hand to check as I'm writing.
How to Be a Victorian: a Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victoran Life from Ruth Goodman, 2013.
Everyday Life in the 1800s by Marc McCutcheon, 1993.
The Massachusetts Police Officer: a Manual for Sheriffs, Constables, Police, and Other Civil Officers, 1891.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumer's Guide for 1894.
Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers' Guide, 1895.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book and Marketing Guide, 1880.
A System of Midwifery, Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal State, by William Leishman, 1879.
John Greenleaf Whittier Biography, by Roland H. Woodwell, 1985.
That's it for now. Readers: do you have any fabulous late Victorian research sources? Please share!
Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries and the Local Foods Mysteries, the Country Store Mysteries (as Maddie Day), and the Lauren Rousseau Mysteries (as Tace Baker), as well as award-winning short crime fiction. Her short story, “A Questionable Death,” is nominated for a 2016 Agatha Award for Best Short Story. The tale features the 1888 setting and characters from her Quaker Midwife Mysteries series, which debuts with Delivering the Truthon April 8.
Maxwell is Vice-President of Sisters in Crime New England and Clerk of Amesbury Friends Meeting. She lives north of Boston with her beau and three cats, and blogs with the other Wicked Cozy Authors. You can find her on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, and at her web site, edithmaxwell.com.
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