Mark your calendar for Jan 7th!
I will be speaking on a panel for History Talks, sponsored by The Glendale Historical Society and the Southern California Chapter of the Historical Novel Society. This free virtual event, takes place on Thursday, January 7th at 7PM. Authors Jeri Westerson, A. E. Wasserman, Colleen Fliedner and I will discuss Life, Death and Medicine in the Victorian era. Author Anne Louise Bannon will moderate.
Living in the Victorian Age brought with it challenges that are distant to our modern world. Travel back in time with our panel of historical authors as they discuss daily hazards like gunshot wounds and concussions, treatment by medical doctors and indigenous healers, the establishment of poor farms for the mentally ill and indigents, mourning etiquette, and more.
Victorian Woman in Black mourning dress.
Participants:
Anne Louise Bannon, moderator – Medical Care
Jeri Westerson – Victorian London
Linda McLaughlin – Victorian Mourning Etiquette
AE Wasserman – Gunshot Wounds, Concussions, and Tribal Medicine
Colleen Fliedner – Los Angeles Poor Farm and Polio Centers
These talks are great fun, and I hope you will join us. Register HERE for this fun event.
Linda
Anne Louise Bannon has made not one, but two careers out of her passion for storytelling. Both a novelist and a journalist, she has an insatiable curiosity. In addition to her mystery novels, she has written a nonfiction book about poisons, freelanced for such diverse publications as the Los Angeles Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Backstage West, and edits the wine blog OddBallGrape.com. On the fiction side, she writes a romantic serial, a spy series, and her Kathy and Freddy 1920s mystery series. Her most recent title is Death of the Chinese Field Hands, set in Los Angeles, 1871. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Visit her website at 
The daughter of a newspaperman, A.E. Wasserman wrote her first novella at age 14 and never stopped writing. She has received numerous awards, including honors from Writer’s Digest for her work. A.E. Wasserman’s current mystery/thrillers, The Langsford Series, have garnered international attention. After graduating from The Ohio State University, she lived in London, then San Francisco. Currently she resides in Southern California with her family and her muse, a Border Collie named Topper. Visit the author’s web site at 