A Look at My Historical Research | The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst

[@sketchesbyboze]

I'm flipping through some of the Miller's Antique Handbooks on the Internet Archive and I can see these becoming a research obsession. Susanna Clarke said something really wise in an interview - "One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages and how difficult it is to get good servants" - and I find the bits about servants and street lamps so fascinating.

[@katiejlumsden]

The Antiques Handbooks are so interesting - so many amazing pieces of furniture and household items and more!

[@martinelanglois3158]

I studied interior design decades ago (how time flies!) and know of Mrs Miller's books. Lucky you!! Thank you for talking about your research. Will gladly watch other videos on the subject. ❤📚

[@stephenn3727]

Thank you Katie!

[@MrRosebeing]

Good luck with your novel.

[@lavenderrosecosplay5639]

This was fascinating to listen to. Thank you for taking the time to discuss your research.

[@RichardSmith-u9y]

Can't believe the research you do Katie 😮you deserve all the success you get x

[@novellenovels]

Lovely to learn the tools that helped you 😊

[@gladouhills9039]

I finished reading The trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst yesterday evening and enjoyed it 😁. I offered a copy to my best friend 😊

[@katiejlumsden]

Thanks so much :)

[@BookishTexan]

Your descriptions of feasts and dinner menus in the book was fascinating and made me glad that I didn’t have to eat some of the food. I loved the brewery details as well.

[@katiejlumsden]

Oh yeah, some Victorian dishes are SO weird. And the way they served courses and how dessert would be severed amongst stuff we really wouldn't consider dessert. So strange!

[@LedgerAndLace]

I LOVE doing research. Your sources sound great, especially all the diaries. But now I'm just thinking of nothing else but your "next book." YAY!!!

[@galenhammond-x4j]

How fine to live life immersed in what one does. 🙂. ❤

[@eMsBooksAreEverywhere]

I found this video so interesting! I’m not writing a book but I want to do research now!😂

[@galenhammond-x4j]

Very cool! 🙂

[@staceydarlington5205]

So interesting!!!

[@InfiniteText]

this was so wonderful to watch. I don't know if you're still interested in reading about desire between women but I know you love Emma Donoghue's fiction. She wrote this more academic book called "Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature" and it's a hybrid of history and close reading of a lot of books that at the time I read it went over my head a little bit, but you might actually have read all these and be able to connect to it. Wondeful work

[@katiejlumsden]

Thanks, Andreea! And yes, I really need to read that Emma Donoghue book!

[@galenhammond-x4j]

I'm really enjoying the book!

[@katiejlumsden]

Thanks so much 😊

[@galenhammond-x4j]

@@katiejlumsden Did you see the pics of her family, including Fanny Knight, that were found in an old photo album? There was a piece in the Daily Mail. Easy to find. I have this compulsion to know what things looked like.

[@katiejlumsden]

@@galenhammond-x4j No, but I’ll have to have a look!

[@galenhammond-x4j]

@@katiejlumsden You deserve to have found it. I want to praise your ability to paint word pictures but I feel like I'm fawning. In one of Jane Austen's letters she mentions leaving a ball at 2:00 and arriving home at 5:00. I know they held them when they could during a full moon to make it easier for people to find their way. Please describe. 🙂

[@isabellemenez5704]

💜

[@bennobenny750]

I wish I had with discipline to do any sort of research

[@katiejlumsden]

I do also find it really fun, though!

[@richarddelanet]

I wonder what leading proper historians she has read?

[@galenhammond-x4j]

It's air conditioned archaeology isn't it.

[@galenhammond-x4j]

I hadn't thought of this before but digging for information sounds plenty archaeological.