Mrs. Brown asked. She couldn't remember she'd been so caught up in her own misery. When researching a particular time, I start by reading the newspaper for the year I am researching. I read all the London Free Press papers for 1915, available on microfilm at the London Public Library. I study the headlines, then the Woman's Pages for a feel for the fashions of the time.
Historical novels have to be accurate.
I studied the ads for the various theatres and plays, the type of stores in London in 1915 and the music being listened to. It was from reading the newspaper that I saw that Nellie McClung had come to speak in London in 1915. I didn't know this before I saw the advertisement and I immediately added it to the book. I also read the editorials. If you want to know what people thought about, you will find the answer in the editorials.