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Sarah tells a little about herself:
I knew I wanted to be a writer from the time I was a very small child. To me, writing is far more than a career or an occupation: it's my way of understanding the world, how I explain it both to myself and to other people. I can't not write, any more than a musician can keep from humming or tapping out tunes, or a visual artist can keep from expressing things in their own medium. Gabriel says that he and I are both "people who live in words," and I've always felt the expression to be as apt as it is beautiful.
Some of the most famous authors of the twentieth-century observed that more good writers are ruined by bad English teachers than through any other cause. Heeding their advice, when I went to college it was not my native language that I studied, but French. Doing so provided invaluable insights into the nature of languages in general, and also into the intimate relationship between language and culture. I have two degrees from the University of Washington, earned concurrently: one B.A. in French, and another one in International Studies. In pursuit of the latter, besides my domestic studies at the U.W., I studied abroad for a summer at L'Université Catholique De L'Ouest in Angers, France. After graduation, I worked in Komatsu, Japan, for a year. If I had to distill the insights of my whole education into a single sentence, I would say that it's one thing to study a culture in the abstract, and quite another to visit the home country of that culture.
A number of years ago, when Gabriel suggested that we explore our mutual love of history by introducing things from the late-Victorian era into our daily lives, I saw it as a way to apply the immersion techniques of cultural studies to historical studies. The past is another culture, to be understood and respected. We can't travel to the past the way we travel to other countries, but we can surround ourselves with the everyday details of another time, and learn from them.
With every detail of Victorian life we've welcomed into our daily existence, we've gained insights into the culture of the time. My books are my way of sharing these insights with the world. After all, a book is a conversation between author and reader which goes on for days, and covers far more territory than a face-to-face meeting ever could.
My current project is my Tales of Chetzemoka series, historical fiction which weaves the details of everyday Victorian life into the engaging story of a cycling club in the 1880's and '90's.
In a seaport town in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, a group of friends find themselves drawn together —by chance, by love, and by the marvelous changes their world is undergoing. In the process, they learn that the family we choose can be just as important as the ones we're born into. Join their adventures in
The Tales of Chetzemoka
In a seaport town in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, a group of friends find themselves drawn together —by chance, by love, and by the marvelous changes their world is undergoing. In the process, they learn that the family we choose can be just as important as the ones we're born into. Join their adventures in
The Tales of Chetzemoka
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Historical Fiction
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First Wheel in Town:
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Love Will Find A Wheel:
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A Rapping At The Door:
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Delivery Delayed:
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Anthologies
A Bouquet of Victorian Roses "What flower did she most resemble?… A rose! Certainly… strong, vigorous, self-asserting… yet shapely, perfect in outline and development, exquisite, enchanting in its never fully realized tints, yet compelling the admiration of every one, and recalling its admirers again and again by the unspoken appeal of its own perfection—its unvarying radiance." —John Habberton, 1876.
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Love's Messenger
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Quotations of Quality
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Love and grief and the two most private, and at the same time the most universal of all human emotions. It is for love that we remember the dead: love of their spirits, love of their vibrancy, love of the good deeds which they did and which live on after them. The poems in this collection were all written by grieving hearts who have now themselves passed over into that great mystery. We can not truly know what death is, yet we know it will come to all of us. In ancient times when a friend told the philosopher Socrates that his judges had sentenced him to death he responded, "And has not Nature passed the same sentence on them?"
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Articles I've written:
What Millenial Women Can Learn From Victorian Ladies:
Refinery29
http://www.refinery29.com/victorian-living-millennial-women
Our Victorian Life
xojane
http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/sarah-chrisman-victorian-secrets
Getting Intimate With History:
Vintorian Publications
https://vintorian.blogspot.ca/2015/12/getting-intimate-with-history-lessons.html
Everyday Life As A Learning Experience:
www.commonlit.org/texts/everyday-life-as-a-learning-experience_
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