Guest Post on Fanny Abington by Jo Manning

Fanny Abington as Prue in Congreve's Love for Love, her most famous comic role, 1771 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon...

Scandalous Women on Film: That Hamilton Woman

Cast & Crew Alexander Korda...... Director Vivien Leigh as Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton Laurence Olivier as Horatio Nelson Alan Mowbray as S...

Winner of Mary Sharratt's DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL

And the winner of DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL is Celtic Lady! I will be emailing you shortly for your address. Thanks again to everyone t...

Scandalous Book Review: Midnight Fires, A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft

From the back cover: Mitchelstown Castle in County Cork, seat of the notorious Anglo-Irish Kingsborough family, fairly hums with intrigue. T...

Guest Blogger Jo Manning on Nelly O'Brien

Scandalous Women is happy to welcome back author Jo Manning on some of the Scandalous Women who modeled for painter Joshua Reynolds. This we...

Author Nancy Woodruff on Dora Jordan: The Duchess of Drury Lane

Scandalous Women is pleased to welcome Nancy Woodruff , author of the new book which came out yesterday, HIS WIFE'S AFFAIR. I first disc...

Guest blogger Mary Sharratt on British Folk Magic and Familiar Spirits

Scandalous Women is pleased to welcome author Mary Sharratt to the blog. In popular imagination, the figure of a witch is accompanied by her...

Scandalous Women in the News: Clelia Mosher, Claire Clairmont and Grace Kelly

Here's a round-up of a few articles that I've found on the Internet recently about some pretty interesting women. I'd like to th...

Scandalous Book Review: Daughters of the Witching Hill

Synopsis: Bess Southerns, an improverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman. D...

The Winner of the Queen's Pawn Giveway is.........

Thanks to random.org, the winner of Christy English's gorgeous debut novel The Queen's Pawn is, drumroll please: Nancy Look for an ...

Guest Blogger Talia Weisberg on Jeanette Rankin

Scandalous Women is pleased to once again have guest blogger Talia Weisberg to give us the 411 on Jeanette Rankin. There have been women in ...

Bette Davis: Icon of the Silver Screen

Happy Birthday to screen legend Bette Davis. Called "one of the major events of the 20th century," Bette was intelligent, opiniona...

Scandalous Book Review and Giveaway: The Queen's Pawn by Christy English

Yesterday in 1204, Eleanor of Aquitaine passed away, so it's fitting that I'm reviewing Christy English's debut novel THE QUEEN...