Scandalous Book Review: Arsenic and Clam Chowder

When author James Livingston contacted me recently about his new book about the trial of his distant relation Mary Alice Livingston, I jump...

Sarah Bernhardt - Queen Elizabeth (1912)

The Divine Sarah - The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt photographed by Nadar On this day in 1844, the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt was born, as far as we know.  The record...

Anne Boleyn Fatal Attractions - G.W. Bernard

ANNE BOLEYN FATAL ATTRACTIONS Author: G.W. Bernard Publisher: Yale University Press 2010, 192 pages. Anne Boleyn has always been my favorite...

Guest Blogger Lisbeth Eng on “The Spy Who Loved Me…but was sleeping with the other guy, too”

Scandalous Women is pleased to welcome debut author Lisbeth Eng, and fellow RWA NYC member to the blog to talk about female spies and her ne...

Scandalous Women on Film: Portrait of a Marriage (1990)

Last night I sat down to watch the BBC Drama PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE starring David Haig as Harold Nicolson, Janet McTeer as Vita Sackville-W...

On the Bookshelf - The Courtiers by Lucy Worsley

I've been dying to write about THE COUTIERS:  Splendor and Intrigue at the Georgian Court of Kensington Palace ever since I first receiv...

Scandalous Book Review: Desiree by Annemarie Selinko

DESIREE by Annemarie Selinko Sourcebooks, October 1, 2010 From the back cover:  To be young, in France, and in love: fourteen year old Desir...

The WInner of October's Giveaway is......

Sorry that I'm a date late in posting the winner of Margaret Campbell Barnes book The Passionate Brood but I had to turn in my copyedits...

Scandalous Love Affairs: Jimmy and the Duchess

( Jimmy Donahue and the Duchess of Windsor at a party in the 1950's) "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance....

October Giveaway: The Passionate Brood by Margaret Campbell Barnes

Happy October everyone! In honor of the release date of Margaret Campbell Barne's classic novel, The Passionate Brood by Sourcebooks, I...