Author dorabenley

East Aurora, NY, remembers the Lusitania. Elbert Hubbard by rights shouldn’t have been sailing on the Lusitania on May 1, 1915. Why was he there with his wife, Alice? President Woodrow Wilson pardoned him, that’s why. The publisher and country… Continue Reading →

The Irish Times has some interesting photographs from the Lusitania disaster.

The Chicago Tribune has a story about the Lusitania disaster.

One year ago today, May 1, the Lusitania set sail from New York to sail to Liverpool. It had been warned by the Germans that it might be taking a risk. But no one believed the warning. It seemed impossible… Continue Reading →

MS Queen Victoria will leave Southampton on Sunday, May 3 for its 100th anniversary cruise called the Lusitania Remembered. On Thursday, May 7 , the 100th anniversary of the sinking, it will dock in Cobh, Ireland. 100 years ago it… Continue Reading →

Previous Edition of Key to Lawrence Special Edition As soon as Dora appears on the Cunard pier a stranger is looking at her in a strangely intent fashion, studying her handbag and the gift she is carrying aboard for her… Continue Reading →

Dora Benley returns to Pittsburgh to wait for Edward to come back from the Middle East and World War 1. While she is making a visit to downtown Pittsburgh, she finds that the saboteur hired by the Kaiser to get… Continue Reading →

Dora Benley arrives at Ware Hall in the South of England two days after the sinking of the Lusitania. It’s nothing like her home in Pittsburgh. Not only are there lots of maids and servants who seem to be in… Continue Reading →

What Would You Give Up To Marry A British Lord? Dora Benley is the only child of a wealthy Robber Baron father who owns Benley and Tire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvia in 1915. Should she trade her well-ordered existence to become… Continue Reading →

Can you describe the most exotic place you’ve ever been? A vacation trip? A move? An adventure? You might not have visited a locale as exotic as Petra in Jordan in the Syrian Desert, but even Tucson, Arizona can seem… Continue Reading →