Dear Subscriber, 
The calendar says it is summer, or almost summer, but the long sleeves just won't stay in the closet! They're right there with our life-jackets. Not that I wish to be flippant about the rains we've been having; Ellicott City is our neighbor, and once again our hearts go out to those who lost so much in this most recent flood. I hope none of our readers have been harmed by the deluge we have been experiencing.
Here at home, we're having an interesting month. We just returned from a wonderful vacation in North Carolina (cabin on the river!!!), but in the interim my 95-year-old mother-in-law fell and fractured her pelvis, so we're now dealing with the necessity of getting her in-home care until she can move to an assisted living facility. Fortunately she is already in a retirement community; it's just a matter of a waiting list. But we find that if we talk to five different people in the same organization we hear five different things! On the other hand, it's a great deal different from the days when a little old lady might look forward to ending up in a workhouse once she could no longer stay in her home or earn a living!
And now here's what we have for you in June, which, you'll see, is our "wedding issue"...
Visit http://www.victorianvoices.net/VT/issues/VT-1806.shtml to download this issue!
Or download it directly from DropBox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajz2cj0cl3is17k/VT-1806.pdf?dl=0
VICTORIAN TIMES QUARTERLY #16 NOW AVAILABLE!
The latest volume of Victorian Times Quarterly is now available on Amazon, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca.
Victorian Times Quarterly #16 includes the contents of the April, May and June 2018 issues of Victorian Times. In this lovely print edition you'll enjoy the latest installments of Aunt Mehitable's visit to Washington DC, Grant Allen's Moorland Idylls, and so much more. This collection includes a look at London's home for lost dogs; first-hand accounts of working life for Victorian women; a visit to the "modern" cave-dwellings of Victorian Britain; tips on how poachers strive to outwit gamekeepers; glimpses of some amazing award-winning decorated bicycles; a ramble through Victorian Nebraska; a look at Victorian weddings; craft tips on making Easter eggs, dollhouse furniture and pewter repousse; loads of recipes... in short, more Victoriana than you can shake a stick at! If you were inclined to shake sticks at things. Add it to your bookshelf today, or share it as a gift with the Victoriana lover on your list.
To find out more and access the ordering links, please visithttp://www.victorianvoices.net/VT/VTQ/VTQ16.shtml
LOVE TO COLOR? YOU'LL LOVE OUR NEW COLORING BOOK!
We're tickled pink (or with pinks) over our new Victorian-themed coloring book, A Victorian Floral Fantasy. If you love flowers and love to color, this is the coloring book for you! It brings you 40 elegant floral designs adapted from a host of Victorian sources, including textile patterns, architectural designs, wallpapers, and Victorian seed catalogs.
This is the perfect book for chilling out, kicking back, de-stressing, and just putting aside the cares of the day. Surround yourself with the colors and patterns of the Victorian garden, and let your imagination run wild.
I'm also tickled pink over having discovered, in Photoshop, how to create a web gallery - so you can preview nearly half of the book! Just visit http://www.victorianvoices.net/books/coloring.shtml to see this book and also a preview of our previous Victorian-themed book, Elegant Designs of the Ages. And again I want to take this opportunity to thank my sister for the fantastic cover; I think of myself as a pretty decent "colorist," but my jaw hit the floor when I saw what she did with my patterns! (That's a William Morris wallpaper, BTW, and I think Morris would have been pleased! Ironically, I think my sister sits in her Morris chair - yep, a genuine reclining Morris chair - when she colors...)
OUR FIRST CLIP-ART COLLECTION IS AVAILABLE!
We're also pleased to announce the publication of our very first Victorian clip art collection. (We hope it will be the first of many...) The Victorian Dogs Clip Art Collection offers dog-lovers more than 1300 images of dogs, including over 125 dog breeds, 50 full-color "ready to frame" prints from Cassell's Book of the Dog and Cassell's New Book of the Dog, a collection of high-resolution Landseer prints, Harrison Weir's dog illustrations from Chatterbox magazine, and much more.
I'm not going to run on about the virtues of this collection here; I'll limit my promotional meanderings to two things: (1) High resolution images and (2) virtually no usage restrictions. All the images are at least 300 dpi and most are 600 dpi - which means you aren't going to open this collection and see a bunch of tiny, 65KB files that aren't good for much of anything but viewing on screen. And we don't care what you use these for - personal, commercial, whatever - unlike some other collections that have a set of restrictions that runs on for over a page! (Partly because we actually know what "public domain" really means...) To find out more, and see our preview galleries (I went a bit crazy with my newfound prowess with the Web Gallery tool), visit http://www.victorianvoices.net/clipart/dogs.shtml .
Thank you all for being a part of the VictorianVoices.net family!
Stay dry!
Your Intrepid Editor,
Moira Allen