Author’s Note:
Below are links to some of the research material I accessed during the writing of My One True Love. PLEASE NOTE:
CLICK LINKS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Each link worked at the time I accessed it, and my browser security app did not detect a problem. I cannot guarantee that is still true today. I share these purely for your interest, and to demonstrate that, although the story, its characters, the Sugar Hill estate, and even the county of Bellman and town of Quellentown are fictional, the events, lifestyles, setting, social structure, and attitudes find root in reality.
My One True Love research – online links:
https://www.oakalleyplantation.org/big-house-exhibit
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/397161260879967029/
https://www.exploregeorgia.org/things-to-do/list/10-historic-georgia-homes-to-tour
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1900-1909/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_in_music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HBCnt_Fk4
http://fashionthroughtheyears.weebly.com/1910-1919.html
https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1910-1919
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1910-1919/
http://www.victoriaonlinesightseeing.com/victoria-history-in-advertising/1914-advertisement-for-victrola-gideon-hicks-piano-company-metropolitan-building-government-street-victoria-british-columbia/
https://www.thomasvillehistory.org/20th-century-plantation-era-1905-1920/#
http://blog.southerngraves.net/p/surnames-only.html
https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/02/24/8-troubling-photos-instruments-torture-used-enslaved-africans/3/
https://www.wuwf.org/post/look-history-red-snapper-fishing-pensacola#stream/0
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-10-30-8802110445-story.html
https://www.npg.org.uk/learning/a-picture-of-health/timeline/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slaveship.htm
https://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/about/
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3457&context=jclc
https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/visiting-the-college/history/college-facts/alexander-crummell
https://www.crt.state.la.us/louisiana-state-museum/online-exhibits/the-cabildo/antebellum-louisiana-agrarian-life/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta,Birmingham_and_Atlantic_Railway https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/auburn-avenue-sweet-auburn https://archive.vogue.com/issue/19160815
https://www.musicvf.com/song.php?title=Ave+Maria+by+John+McCormack&id=117914
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220343/ https://www.battlefields.org/learn/war-1812/battles/new-orleans https://www.google.com/maps/place/Belleair,+FL+33756,+USA/@27.9377746,-82.8233157,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88c2f096c548500d:0x2ba99c3967974606!8m2!3d27.9358543!4d-82.8062139 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis http://time.com/4202825/family-budget-black-history-month/ http://www.brooks.public.lib.ga.us/ https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/usage/ancient-greek
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1750233/pdf/bullnyacadmed00243-0099.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Model_Thirty https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-15386436 https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/oath/johnmarshallchairinfo.aspx https://www.comuseum.com/culture/tea/# https://dlg.usg.edu/record/tchs_lpn_chinquapin-children-playing-c1915 https://windycitygreek.com/chris-tomaras/ http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/collections http://www.mylhcv.com/common-creole-names-for-males/ https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/slavery-in-the-american-south https://www.ccmalta.com/publications/corfu_and_malta#:~:text=Surnames%20which%20are%20very%20common,is%20not%20the%20only%20similarity. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/cotton https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/greek-culture/1096-naming#1096-naming
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Decatur-Street-%28Atlanta%29 http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/stories/fanny_kembles_diary https://www.americanbar.org/groups/young_lawyers/publications/tyl/topics/criminal-law/discovery_criminal_and_civil_theres_difference/ https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-whip-poor-will http://www.astheysewinfrance.com/info/queen-mary-dinner-dress/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille
https://www.fdic.gov/about/history/timeline/1900-1919.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldgeister https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guerlain-Sillage(1907).jpg
https://www.firstafricanbc.com/
https://foter.com/flat-file-cabinets
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/254834
https://www.ncdot.gov/initiatives-policies/Transportation/bridges/historic-bridges/Documents/Florida.pdf
https://www.geriwalton.com/words-said-during-french-revolution/
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/school/overview/reform1902-14/
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gangster
https://www.britannica.com/place/Georgia-state/Slavery-the-Civil-War-and-Reconstruction
https://thomasvilleplaza.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gig_(carriage)
https://www.parlettgames.uk/histocs/ginrummy.html
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Greece_Names,Personal#:~:text=Greeks%20do%20not%20have%20middle,%2D’s%20used%20in%20English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church
https://guerlainperfumes.blogspot.com/p/guerlain-flacon-list.html https://guerlainperfumes.blogspot.com/p/list-of-guerlain-perfumes.html
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/handwriting-analysis/
Forensics College Handwriting Analysis
https://www.thebelleviewinn.com/the-belleview-story/the-history/ https://www.perkins.org/history/curriculum https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367742/ https://brailleworks.com/braille-resources/history-of-braille/ https://glamourdaze.com/history-of-womens-fashion/1900-to-1919 https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/hors-d-oeuvres/ https://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/i00dis.htm https://www.jstor.org/stable/27502194?seq=13#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/27502194?seq=28#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/first-names/irish-first-names/ https://emerald-heritage.com/blog/2017/irish-ports-of-emigration http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plantation.htm http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C795.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1800%E2%80%931899 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Ch%C3%A9ruit https://www.behindthename.com/name/rufus https://www.fbiic.gov/public/2008/nov/Naming_practice_guide_UK_2006.pdf http://thefuneralsource.org/trad04.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/mouse https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-1916/1916irl/people/names/ https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-178 https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06trouvadore/background/illegal_slave_trade/illegal_slave_trade.html http://www.hellenism.net/greek-forum/index.php/topic/3390-origin-of-greek-surnames/ https://www.kinseyfamilyfarm.com/nursery-plants/flowering-trees/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/osborn-albert-sherman https://thomasville.org/our-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Poiret https://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-and-animals/plants/plants/pennyroyal https://www.jstor.org/stable/30140132?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3A6365473225c68a2cfe49a25173595d5f&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://perfumeshrine.blogspot.com/search/label/guerlain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photostat_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraeus http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/notes/plantati.htm http://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Texts/neplut.htm https://www.jstor.org/stable/293065?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ac773ad509e9772dcb60345fad05402eb&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.flickr.com/photos/perkinsarchive/12484605965/in/album-72157640888111385/
https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100.pdf https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/quelle https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5903160W/Questioned_documents https://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/tag/quitman-ga/ https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/railroads https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-24 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rfd.htm https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-reportage/places-royales-paris https://www.saltandsagebooks.com/profiles/candice-roma/ https://www.marineinsight.com/maritime-history/selandia-the-first-motor-ship-in-the-world/ https://learnersdictionary.com/qa/septuagenarian-octogenarian chrome://settings/content/cookies https://www.etymonline.com/word/shilly-shally https://www.hematology.org/education/patients/anemia/sickle-cell-disease#:~:text=Sickle%20cell%20disease%20is%20more,Asian%2C%20Indian%2C%20and%20Mediterranean%20descent
https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/slave-manifests/charleston/blackman.html https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123608207 https://www.acadianmemorial.org/ensemble_encore2/cajunrootsc.htm http://www.srha.net/public/history/history.htm https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Bannon https://www.houseofnames.com/sweeney-family-crest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailcoat#Morning_coat https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/telegrams https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/clotilda-last-known-slave-ship-arrive-us-found-180972177/ https://www.perkins.org/history/timeline/1900s https://www.jstor.org/stable/3741334?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3A76d381f3cafb50ead71e401a5c09b907&seq=11#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054087/1916-08-09/ed-1/seq-2/
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054087/1916-03-10/ed-1/seq-3/ http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/barrow.htm https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory1os2xmaster/chapter/the-economics-of-cotton/
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation
https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/historyof78rpms https://www.britishgraphology.org/about-british-institute-of-graphologists/the-history-of-graphology/ https://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-14
https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/journals-of-thomas-thistlewood/ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004124262&view=1up&seq=228 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004124262&view=1up&seq=229 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2205612?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://books.google.ca/books?id=fVgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA567&lpg=PA567&dq=Georgia+social+festivities+1916&source=bl&ots=cSCB7mFq4-&sig=ACfU3U0Tzs_KeeGIigRT4P4aQd6jZuYLCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY_5GQ7PDqAhXmIDQIHZS3AGYQ6AEwJXoECBQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Georgia%20social%20festivities%201916&f=false
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89051115 http://www.victor-victrola.com/Records.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick(academic)
https://www.lexico.com/definition/tignon
https://www.ancestry.ca/name-origin?surname=tomaras
https://www.libraryireland.com/names/men/tomas-thomas.php
https://www.candydistrict.com/blogs/sweet-talk-blog/top-ten-candies-from-the-early-1900s
https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/first-names/traditional-irish-boys-names-m-u/
https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/famous-fascinating-historic-new-york-restaurant-menus-wine-lists/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland_Francis_King_Carey_School_of_Law
https://www2.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/schoolarchives/documents/Catalog1916.pdf
https://www.finestandrarest.com/champagne.html
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/voltaire_107028
https://sites.psu.edu/bisipassion2/2017/02/09/voltaire-and-enlightenment/
https://www.history.com/topics/war-of-1812/war-of-1812
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+flacon&rlz=1C1JZAP_enCA784CA784&oq=what+is+a+flacon&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j0i457j0l5.1719j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.euronews.com/2016/11/25/catholic-and-orthodox-christian-churches-compared
https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis
https://www.bottleneckmgmt.com/blog/whiskey-history-timeline/
https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/wildlife
https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/wildlife/article/birds/downy-woodpecker-picoides-pubescens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_tasting
I use a number of print resources as well, including but not limited to (Title/Author/ISBN):
1914: THE MEN WHO WENT TO WAR, Malcolm Brown – 978-1-4472-7033-1
British Furniture 1600-2000, The Intelligent Layman – 947798 60 9
Everyday Fashions 1909-1920: As Pictured in Sears Catalogue, JoAnne Olian (editor) – 978-0-486-28628-0
FIRST WORLD WAR BRITAIN: Shire Living Histories, Peter Doyle – 978-0-74781-098-8
Men’s Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century, Jno. J. Mitchell Co. – 978-0-486-26353-3
SERVANTS: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times, Lucy Lethbridge – 978-0-393-24109-9
The 1910s: American Popular Culture Through History, Davide Blanke – 978-0-313-36116-6
The Book of War Letters: 100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence, Audry and Paul Grescoe – 1-55799-405-5
The Garden at Chatsworth, The Duchess of Devonshire (photography by Gary Rogers) – 0-670-89109-6
The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War, Robert Cowley (editor) – 0-375-50909-7
The History Of Underclothes, C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington – 978-0-486-27124-8
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey, Alison Gernsheim – 978-0-486-24205-7
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist – the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England, Daniel Pool – 978-0-671-88236-8
World War I, H.P. WillMott – 978-0-7566-5015-5
