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Virtue and Reputation
By Mary Smythe, author of A Case of Some Urgency “Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson; that...
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Oct 4, 20237 min read
What Is A Mother To Do?
By Lucy Marin, author of Mrs Bennet Makes A Match In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen introduces us to Mrs Bennet by saying that, “[t]he...
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Sep 20, 20236 min read
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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Aug 23, 20234 min read
“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, 20237 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20236 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20225 min read
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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