Author Archives: Jack

Ida and Louise Cook were unmarried sisters in their mid thirties who lived with their parents. One wrote romance novels for Mills and Boon (England’s Harlequin equivalent) and the other commuted from their sleepy London suburb to work as a secretary for the civil service. They wore home made clothes and shared a love of […]

I hadn’t meant to stop at the auction. Grief sat heavy on my chest, and all I wanted was to go home. But then I saw them three little goats, shivering together in the cold. The auctioneer called them “unsold leftovers,” bound for feed. Something in me broke. My mother’s last words came rushing back: […]

In the 1870s, Williamina Fleming left Scotland for the U.S. with her husband. Soon after, he abandoned her—leaving her alone in her early twenties and expecting a child. To support herself, Williamina found work as a housekeeper for Edward Pickering, Director of the Harvard College Observatory. One day, frustrated with his male assistants, Pickering reportedly […]

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