Excellent Blogs

I just found out that Scandalous Women was just given an "Excellent Blog Award" by World of Royalty and Reading the Past (7/14). Wow! Thank you so much.

The blog meme was started by the Mommy Project.

Now it is my turn to pass the award on to some blogs I find excellent. It’s hard to choose because there are so many good blogs out there, but here are 10 that I think deserve an Excellent Blog Award:


Comments

Sincerae said…
Hi Elizabeth,
I keep forgetting to thank you for including my blog in your listing of historical blogs on your sidebar. So here I go, "Thank you:)"

By the way, my friend Greek blogger Christos who is a political blogger, but who loves history included one of your older posts about Mary Tudor on his post for today:
http://cmoiss.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_10.html

Have a great remainder of the week!
July 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
Thanks for letting me know! Have a great remainder of the week yourself!
July 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Heather Carroll said…
Thank you so much Elizabeth, I am truly flattered!! :)
July 10, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Evangeline Holland said…
Thank you Elizabeth! I'm grateful you considered my blog "excellent" material.
July 11, 2008 at 12:50 AM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
You are welcome ladies! Pay it forward.
July 11, 2008 at 8:13 AM
Bearded Lady said…
Elizabeth,
tons of great finds! I especially appreciate the Edwardian site. I was just surfing looking for clothing and architecture references of this period. (Illustrating a book cover that takes place during this time)

This site is a huge help. thanks!
July 11, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
I'm glad that I could introduce you to some really excellent history blogs. I think that's one of the great things about the Excellent Blog award.
July 11, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Anonymous said…
A blessing on your house! You are too kind! Thank you so much, Elizabeth. When I start blogging regularly again in September I'll try to live up to the award. SW is still the best!
July 12, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
You are welcome Sharon! I hope you have a great vacation, and I look forward to reading the blog again in September.
July 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Megan Frampton said…
Congratulations on the recognition!
July 12, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Anonymous said…
Thank you for your excellent blog, and also for your list -- I'm looking forward to checking these blogs out!
July 13, 2008 at 3:54 AM
Joyce Hanson said…
Hi, Elizabeth.

Love your avatar! And thanks so much for passing on the "Excellent Blog Award" to me. I feel so honored and shy all of a sudden.

I will definitely pay it forward. With your support, I feel like I'm in good bad-girl company!

Cheers, Joyce
July 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
You are welcome Joyce. Keep rocking! I look forward to reading more on the Bad Girl blog.
July 15, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Eliza Knight said…
Congrats Elizabeth!!! And thank you!!!

I don't know if I've said this before, but you should put all of your posts in a book titled "Scandolous Women." I'd buy it!!!!
July 15, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
Thanks for the compliment! I'm working on it Eliza. Trying to put a proposal together right now!
July 16, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Eliza Knight said…
Are you really? That's awesome! Keep me updated on that! :)

BTW, I nominated you right back :)
July 16, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
I will! This blog has been a labor of love for me from the beginning. And I would love to share these amazing women with teh world in book form.

Thanks for the nomination!
July 16, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Judith Weingarten said…
I only just got the link! I love the idea of all the Scandalous Women giving an Excellent Award to Zenobia. Thanks so much.
July 30, 2008 at 6:56 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Notorious New York Women - The Mayflower Madam

Image
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. Sydney Biddle Barrows, to Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986 There is a reason why they call prostitution the oldest profession. Its been around since probably man first walked upright, and the debate on whether or not to legalize it as raged almost as long. Recently with the Eliot Spitzer trial and now the alleged suicide of the 'DC Madam,' Deborah Jeane Palfrey, prostitution is once again in the news. But there was a time when the idea of high class call girl rings or escort services was still something of a shocker. Recognize the woman on the left? If you don't, then you weren't around or old enough in 1984 when Sidney Biddle Barrows was once of the biggest stories in the news. She was dubbed The Mayflower Madam because her ancestors had come over on The Mayflower. The Biddles in Philadelphia are an old Mainline family, the type that only have their names in ...
Read more

Scandalous Women in Fiction: Irene Forsyte

Image
I recently watched 2002 Granada Television production of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga again to immerse myself in the world of the Victorians. I was struck again by the character of Irene Heron Forsyte, the mysterious, and aloof beauty that is at the heart of the first series. During the course of the first six episodes she manages to enchant not one but three of the Forsyte men as well as stealing the heart of Philip Bosinney, the fiance of her good friend June Forsyte. She leaves her husband Soames, which causes a scandal, that reverberates throughout the second series. Soames is never really able to get over losing Irene. Irene is certainly a Scandalous Woman but it is less about what she does than how the men in her life perceive her that makes her so Scandalous. When we first meet Irene in both the television series she is living in Bournemouth with her stepmother. Her father who was a Professor (we are not told of what) has died, leaving Irene with only 50 pounds a year...
Read more

Marie du Plessis, the real Lady of the Camellias

Image
The sight of Greta Garbo as Marguerite Gautier expiring in the arms of the handsome Robert Taylor at the end of the movie Camille is a powerful and romantic image that stays with the viewer after the movie has ended. But that was not how the life of the real Marguerite Gautier ended. On February 5, 1847, Marie Duplessis, once Queen of the demi-monde in Paris, died in agony from tuberculosis at the age of tender age of 23 alone apart from the doctors and her servants. She wrote no books or poetry, left no paintings, was remarkable chiefly for her beauty and her fame as a courtesan. Within weeks of her death, all her belongings, including her pet parrot, were auctioned to pay off her massive debts. Fashionable Paris turned out for the auction, most not to bid but merely to stare. Dickens was among the crowds, later writing: "One could have believed that Marie was Jeanne d'Arc or some other national heroine, so profound was the general sadness." A myth was beginning to take...
Read more