Lizzie Siddal - Victorian Supermodel

Most of us have heard Janice Dickinson nattering on and on about being called the world’s first ‘supermodel’ and how no one else deserves t...

Scandalous Book Review: Stealing Athena by Karen Essex

I was in Philadelphia a few weeks ago when I had that moment that most book lovers hate, the one where you have finished a book, and you don...

The Regal Twelve

Thanks to Heather Carroll of The Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide for bringing attention to Alexia Sinclair's amazing series o...

Madame X: The story behind one of the world's most famous paintings

One of the things that I am grateful for is that I live in a city with one of the world's foremost art museums, The Metropolitan Museum ...

And the Winner is.....

And the winner of a copy of The Diamonds of Welbourne Manor is: Helen Pilz Helen, please email me off line at scandalouswoman@gmail.com wi...

Suzanne Valadon

Recently Jelena from The Sundance Channel sent me a link to a Mother's Day post about Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), an artists model and...

Scandalous Women welcomes Amanda McCabe

Scandalous Women is pleased to welcome historical romance author Amanda McCabe to the blog today. Amanda McCabe wrote her first romance at t...

Scandalous Women in Fiction: Irene Forsyte

I recently watched 2002 Granada Television production of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga again to immerse myself in the world of the...

May at Scandalous Women

This May we are celebrating women in the Arts. Women who were either the muses of famous artists (Elizabeth Siddal), patrons of the arts (Is...