Penny Dreadful Variety Hour

2.07: Sweeney Todd and the loan shark. — A very angry young profligate. — A racy flash song about a buz-napper and a bawd! The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine! · Episode

Another episode is up and ready! open.spotify.com/episode/0E4M...

New channel art! Very excited about it.

2.05: Lord Lionel's indecent proposal ... Evil Count Lerno's moneymaking scheme ... the perils of raising the dead ... a robber's song! The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine! · Episode

Another episode on the feed! open.spotify.com/episode/2ADc...

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 1:

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters 📚💙

"Carolyn Keene" oh hell yes and Franklin W. Dixon too!

My ten! You mentioned Anne McCaffrey so I'm going back to high school to start my list. Love the Dragonriders, what a great series.

Anne McCaffrey
Piers Anthony
Robert E. Howard
Jane Austen
Joseph Conrad
Lee Child
Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Roger Zelazny
Louisa May Alcott

Ha, I wonder if Kaiser Bill wore one of these to bed each night!

I dunno, Austin was smarter than I am, obvs; but I get the impression Mary was operating in earnest good faith, and Collins was playing a role hoping to win prizes thereby. Like she read Fordyce for self-improvement, he read Fordyce to pose as a righteous man ... ?

Nailed it! I wonder if lady c would have let him marry Mary ... anyway, that's a bullet dodged for her, I'd say

2.04: Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped like a rat! Or is he? — Lord Londonderry in the haunted castle! — Johanna rushes to her destiny! The Penny Dreadful Radio Hour: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode

Another Sunday night, another new episode! Johanna nearly provokes Sweeney Todd — Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped in the robbers' roost — Lord Londonderry sees a ghost!

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2.03: Escape from the murder-house? — A pious predator unmasked. — The Admiral vs. the Vampire! The Penny Dreadful Radio Hour: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode

New episode just dropped! open.spotify.com/episode/44Sg...

OTD 1815 & morning after the day before at Waterloo. What happened to the thousands of dead men & horses? Who cleaned up & where did all the stuff go? What about the wounded? What fate befell the battlefield & its dead in the years to come? Read all about it in these 3 articles:

The brick (for which the town was famous) built gatehouse of Beverley North Bar dates from the early 15th century. The town was wealthy, in part due to its religious community. The area inside the gate was known as North Bar Within. This super Raphael Tuck and Sons image dates to 1921.

The brick (for which the town was famous) built gatehouse of Beverley North Bar dates from the early 15th century. The town was wealthy, in part due to its religious community. The area inside the gate was known as North Bar Within. This super Raphael Tuck and Sons image dates to 1921.

Public Lending Right (PLR): Eligibility & Registration - The British Library PLR is a legal right to payment for eligible book contributors when a book is borrowed from public libraries. Check if you're eligible and register. Learn more.

Reminder for all UK authors and illustrators to register any new books for PLR by the end of June in order to have them included in the 2024/25 count. If you're not signed up, do it! You could - and should - be getting paid every time a book you contributed to is borrowed from a library!

Our knowledgeable 18th century colleagues can always be relied upon to answer these tricky questions!

2.001: Lady Edith contemplates a fatal divorce. — Robbers and mace coves and thieves, oh my! (Season 2 Premier episode!) The Penny Dreadful Story Show: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode

Starting Season Two tonight! Alas, the new music is not doing it for me, I'll have to tweak that next time. Great Dreadfuls this time though. open.spotify.com/episode/3nKa...

031: Trapped in the Murderers' House! — Is This the Vampire? — The Vaults Give Up their Secrets — plus more flash-cant words! The Penny Dreadful Story Show: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode

Weekly Penny Dreadful show just dropped!

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Hey everybody, I just looked this title up on Amazon to check it out (Dickensland by @victorianlondon.bsky.social ) and HOLY CRAP THEY'RE SELLING IT FOR $3.75 IN HARDCOVER! Of course I had to buy it. I'm sure it's a glitch, and they'll fix it soon, but ...

Yes! Or Narrow Escapes from a Fate Worse than Death in 1847!

030: Dick Turpin cries "Stand and deliver!" ... the bitter fruit of Lady Edith's secret marriage ... two more ballet-girls threatened with a Fate Worse Than Death! (Mid-Victorian Edition) The Penny Dreadful Story Show: A Late Regency/Early Victorian Weekly Feast of Crammers and Moonshine · Episode

HELLO WORLD! Yup, it's our first Bsky post! [EDIT: Technically second - oops wrong link!] Last night Episode 30 went live. Featuring Highwayman Dick Turpin, Spring-Heel'd Jack, evil Colonel Bertrand, and our latest addition, ballet-girl Rose Mortimer! open.spotify.com/episode/4GAL...