"If a woman loves her husband she is pretty sure to make him the repository of all her thoughts and feelings, and if he is worthy the confidence, his opinions and views, from a masculine standpoint, are often of the greatest assistance to her in advising her unmarried friends."
—Florine Thayer McCray, 1884.
Wheels and Whims, 1884, pp. 119—120.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

"Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts.  The writer's first business is to get at these facts exactly —get the meat out of them— and then, by the most direct method, to transmit them to his readers.  That is the whole substructure of literature; the groundwork —the anatomy."
—Wolstan Dixey.
The Trade of Authorship, 1888, p. 83.

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Just a glimpse of a few of the wild foods that feature in my Tales of Chetzemoka historical fiction series.

"No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman."
—Gail Hamilton, 1872.
Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, 1872. p. 289.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

Victorian Images of Love & Romance
"Love is the golden key that unlocks all souls." —A.D. Mayo