Scandalous Women in Fashion: Chanel and Isabella Blow

I picked up the following two books recently at the bookstore.  One is a new biography of Chanel entitled, COCO CHANEL: The legend and the L...

Winner of the AFTER THE FALLS giveaway

The winner of the AFTER THE FALLS giveaway is: KATIE MAY Katie, I will be emailing you to get your snailmail address so that I can send you ...

Q&A with Catherine Gildiner, author of AFTER THE FALLS and Giveaway

Welcome to Scandalous Women, Catherine! I can’t tell you how excited I was to read your new memoir AFTER THE FALLS. But I have to ask, how d...

Scandalous Women in Fiction: The Princess of Nowhere

THE PRINCESS OF NOWHERE: A novel of Pauline Borghese, sister of Napoleon - Prince Lorenzo Borghese Harper Collins/Avon A December 7, 2010 Fr...

Around the Blogosphere

I don't often have a chance to read other blogs but recently I have found a few that are so interesting I thought I would share them wi...

On the Bookshelf - After the Falls

AFTER THE FALLS: Coming of Age in the Sixties Catherine Gildiner October 28, 2010, 368 pages Viking Adult From the back cover: It's 1960...

Winners of The Bad Queen Giveaway are.....

I am happy to announce that the winners of Carolyn Meyers book The Bad Queen are Seat 3B and Donna Marie Ladies, I will be emailing you in t...

Scandalous Women on Film: Marie Antoinette (1938)

Marie Antoinette (1938) Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Directed by W.S. Van Dyke Written by: Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda, Claudine W...

Happy Birthday Marie Antoinette and Giveaway

Happy Birthday to Marie Antoinette who was born today (as well as myself and Leah Marie Brown!).  To celebrate Marie's birthday (and min...

They Spoke with the Dead: The Lives of Kate and Maggie Fox

"Let them step forward and solve this mystery, if they can." - E.E. Lewis, author of A Report of the Mysterious Noises Heard in th...