Let me introduce you to Signora Psyche Zenobia. An adopted name of course, but for someone so flamboyant, appropriate.
The good signora has aspirations. She would like to be a writer. At present she is the corresponding secretary to an interesting group of notables in Philadelphia which goes by a lengthy name with the initials of P. R. E. T. T. Y. B. L. U. E. B. A. T. C. H. !
But how to get published? She travels to Edinburgh to meet with the esteemed proprietor and editor of 'Blackwood Magazine.' A real publication of the 1830s. He proceeds to tell her about the kinds of articles that catch the attention of readers in Blackwood's.
