Wallpaper was a popular decorating item in Victorian Aspen. Shops advertised new shipments as soon as they arrived. Patterns and colors for decorating walls achieved as much attention as did fashions ...

Historian Hawksley (Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter) delivers an unnerving account of an unexpected killer in the elaborately decorated homes of Victorian England: arsenic-laced wallpaper. The ...

Patterned wallpaper — often in vivid colors — played an important role in Victorian houses, from parlors and libraries to bedrooms. Now, Lucinda Hawksley, a great-great-great granddaughter of Charles ...

A new book by Thames & Hudson explores the lethal popularity of arsenic-based wallpapers in the 19th century. Wallpaper might be an interior design trend that is coming back into style, but no matter ...

As if there weren’t enough deadly things to worry about in the 1880s, what with all the infectious diseases lurking in every cough, the Boston Globe began publishing articles warning the public that ...

EGREMONT — "The day was dull, the light was grey and the bold patterns in the drawing room were forming into a storm." The wallpaper of the Braithwite house holds many secrets. For Lucy Braithwite, ...

From Smithsonian.com: “In the Victorian period, wallpaper could – and did – kill. Arsenic was everywhere in the Victorian period, from food coloring to baby carriages. But the vivid floral wallpapers ...

Beautiful to look at and compelling to read, this book is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile sections of alluring, arsenic-laden wallpapers with thought-provoking ...