Links to Favorite Sites & Blogs

Houses, Palaces, & Castles Mentioned in my Books

• Euston Hall
  
• Sutton Park
  
• Buckingham Palace
  
• St. James’s Park
  
• Chateau de Versailles
  
• Dover Castle
  
• Goodwood House
  

Other Historic Places & Museums of Interest & Inspiration

• The British Museum
  
• National Portrait Gallery (Great Britian)
  
• National Portrait Gallery (United States)
  
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
• The Frick Collection (my absolute favorite small musuem)
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  
• Victoria & Albert Museum
  

Research & Writing

• Historical Novels Society
  
• Historical Novels Review
  
• Seventeenth Century News
  
• Historic Food
  
• The National Archives (Great Britian)
  
• Capering & Kickery (historic dance)
  
• David Rumsey Map Collection
  
• Diary of Samuel Pepys (the famous diary, day by day, plus annotations)
  
• The 1662 Book of Common Prayer Website
  
• Leigh Rayment’s Peerage Page (a labor of love for the British peerage)
  
• Map of Early Modern London
  
• Vision of Britain Through Time
  

Writers & Readers

• Antonia Fraser
  
• The Historienne’s Diary (Antonia Fraser’s blog)
  
• Sandra Gulland
  
• Baroque Explorations (Sandra Gulland’s research blog)
  
• Karen Harper
  
• Laurel Corona
  
• Sally Gunning
  
• Loretta Chase
  
• Robin Maxwell
  
• Susan Fraser King
  
• Robin Maxwell
  
• Versailles & More (Catherine Delors)
  
• Philippa Gregory
  
• Jeanne Kalogridis
  
• History is a Bitch (Jeanne Kalogridis’s blog)
  
• Periodic Pearls (Margaret Evans Porter)
  
• Tracy Grant
  
• The Raucous Royals (Carlyn Beccia)
  
• Hoydens and Firebrands
  
• Wonders & Marvels
  
• The Booksmugglers
  
• Galley Cat
  
• Historical Novels.info
  
• New American Library
  
• Reading the Past
  
• The Reader’s Advisor
  
• Curled Up with a Good Book
  
• History Buff
  
• History Hoydens
  
• Raucous Royals blog
  
• Historical Tapestry
  
• WordWenches
  
• Scandalous Women
  
• Book Escape
  

Because One Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words

• The Royal Collection
  
• Bridgeman Art, Culture, & Image Archives
  
• VADS (on-line resource for visual arts)
  
• Beazley Archive of Classical Art
  
• Grand Ladies from 1610-1715
  
• Philip Mould Historical Portraits
  
• Full Screen QTVR: Versailles
  
• Panorama: Hall of Mirrors, Versailles
  

Irresistable Miscellaney

• Paris Atelier (an idosyncratic look at Marie Antoinette’s influence on fashion and style)
  
• Dixie Gunworks
  
• The Society of King Charles the Martyr
• The Three Graces (antique jewelery)
  
• Love’s Guide to the Church Bells of the City of London
  
• Recordings of Change Ringing (historic British church bells)
  
• Reusable Cover Art (or how many times can Madame Recamier appear on a different novel’s cover?)