Hello there. I’m Sarah Zama and I write historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s.

On this blog, I share my discoveries about this awesome time.

Sarah Zama - Author of historical fantasy novels set in the 1920s | Dieselpunk | 1920s social history blogger | Hopeless Tolkien nerd
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Trousers (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)

Trousers (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)

For a very long time, and through the entire New Woman’s historical arc, trousers remained controversial clothing for women #WomenFashion

Trousers (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)
Trousers (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)

For a very long time, and through the entire New Woman’s historical arc, trousers remained controversial clothing for women #WomenFashion

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Suffrage Movement (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)
Suffrage Movement (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)

The suffrage movement began their agitations for women’s rights in the first half of the 1800s, but it was after 1900 that the fight became more fierce. From this movement soon arose a broader understanding of women’s equality: Feminism.

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Respectability (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)
Respectability (Enter the New Woman #AtoZChallenge 2022)

The New Woman successfully turned her respectability into a weapon in the fight for change and equality.

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Living the Twenties
Living the Twenties (#AtoZChallenge 2020) Theme Reveal

Living the Twenties (#AtoZChallenge 2020) Theme Reveal

The 1920s sound a lot like us, a time of wild change and insecurities and yet great hope for the future. I think they can teach us a lot about ourselves. Maybe they can teach us how to bring our Twenties someplace different.

Living the Twenties (#AtoZChallenge 2020) Theme Reveal
Living the Twenties (#AtoZChallenge 2020) Theme Reveal

The 1920s sound a lot like us, a time of wild change and insecurities and yet great hope for the future. I think they can teach us a lot about ourselves. Maybe they can teach us how to bring our Twenties someplace different.

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Avant Gardes (Living the Twenties #AtoZChallenge 2020)
Avant Gardes (Living the Twenties #AtoZChallenge 2020)

Avant Garde artists chose to walk away from a naturalistic representation of reality to sink deep into the human soul and try to represent what was there

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Breakthrough (Living the Twenties #AtoZChallenge 2020)
Breakthrough (Living the Twenties #AtoZChallenge 2020)

The Twenties were a time a great innovation. The old world that had existed in the 1800s died in the fires and destruction of WWI. The 1920s saw the emergence of a new world.

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Consumerism (Living the Twenties #AtoZChallenge 2020)
Consumerism (Living the Twenties #AtoZChallenge 2020)

In the 1920s, an entire, quite large section of society, the middle-class, knew an unprecedented growth in prosperity, which characterised the entire era

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