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What's The Point? A Review Of “A Brief Display of the Origin and History of Ordeals”
By Julie Cooper, author of The Seven Sins of Fitzwilliam Darcy My latest novel begins with an enraged Mr Bennet challenging Mr Darcy to a...
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Q&Q Publishing
- Aug 23
- 4 min
“This Foul and Hellish Fraud”: Shipbuilding and Scandal During the Napoleonic Wars
By Frances Reynolds, author of The Wallflower In the prologue of The Wallflower, the sinking of a Royal Navy ship on its maiden voyage...
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- Aug 9
- 7 min
Tourism In Seaside Towns
By Lucy Marin, author of A Matter of Prudence The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr...
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- Jul 11
- 4 min
Smallpox: The Long Rampage of ‘the Speckled Monster’
By Frances Reynolds, author of In Sickness & In Health In the first half of In Sickness & In Health, the primary antagonist is not a...
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- Jun 14
- 5 min
Over The Anvil
By Mary Smythe, author of Prevailed Upon to Marry In Jane Austen’s time, English marriage laws were extremely particular thanks to the...
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- May 9
- 5 min
Breach Of Promise To Marry
By Amy D'Orazio, author of A Folly of Youth In 1826, eighteen-year-old Caroline Elkington, the daughter of a Birmingham attorney, went...
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- Apr 25
- 4 min
Frivolity And Folly
By Julie Cooper, author of Irresistibly Alone “Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness on one side of...
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- Apr 5
- 5 min
Musings On Mansions
By Jessie Lewis, author of Unfounded One blog piece is not enough to write about even one tiny speck of all there is to say about...
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- Mar 30
- 6 min
The Role Of A Regency Housekeeper
By Jessie Lewis, author of Unfounded Mr Darcy’s housekeeper, Mrs Reynolds, is seen only once in Pride and Prejudice—when she shows...
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- Mar 8
- 5 min
A Cuckoo In The Nest
By J Marie Croft, author of Enduring Connexions In my novel Enduring Connexions, a brief prologue hints that ‘a cuckoo in the nest’ might...
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- Feb 8
- 4 min
The Worth of A Woman
By Elsie Fulbrook, author of The Warmth of Her Affection The Warmth of Her Affection opens with the women of Meryton discussing the...
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- Jan 11
- 5 min
Unleashed: Pets in the Age of Austen
By Lucy Marin, author of The Truth About Family Many of us have beloved non-human family members. I have two feline fur-babies, and I...
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- Dec 21, 2022
- 5 min
Aerial Espionage In the Napoleonic Wars
By Lyndsay Constable, author of An Excellent Walker There, in the sky above the clearing, were floating boats held aloft by giant...
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- Nov 30, 2022
- 4 min
Wimpole: A Great Country House
By Linda Gonschior, author of Handsome Men Are Habit Forming While contemplating where Mr and Mrs Darcy might spend their wedding night...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 5 min
Courtship and Propriety
By Mary Smythe, contributing author to An Inducement Into Matrimony “If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the...
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- Oct 26, 2022
- 6 min
What’s In An Honorific?
By Mary Smythe, author of Pride Before A Fall What, indeed? Well, for starters, what you call someone—and what they call you—says quite a...
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- Oct 11, 2022
- 6 min
Unbearably Fine: Jewellery In The Georgian Period
By Ali Scott, author of A Man of Good Fortune Every jewel tells a story. Some speak of devotion—an engagement ring between two lovers; a...
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- Sep 28, 2022
- 5 min
Regency Medicine: Herbs, Snake Oil, And 'Mother's Friend'
By Jan Ashton, author of A Famous Good Marrying Scheme Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. Emma, Volume I, Chapter 12 Whether one...
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- Sep 14, 2022
- 4 min
On The Sea: Pirates, Privateers, and Navy Officers
By Lyndsay Constable, author of Never Inconstant One of the things that inspired me to write Never Inconstant was that I kept seeing...
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- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
The Mood of Madness
By Julie Cooper, author of A Stronger Impulse In my newest novel, A Stronger Impulse, Fitzwilliam Darcy experiences what we in the 21st...
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