top of page
Search


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Jul 11, 20234 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Jun 14, 20235 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
May 9, 20235 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Apr 25, 20234 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Apr 5, 20235 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Mar 30, 20236 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Mar 8, 20235 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Feb 8, 20234 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Jan 11, 20235 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Dec 21, 20225 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Nov 30, 20224 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Nov 2, 20225 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Oct 26, 20226 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Oct 11, 20226 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Sep 28, 20225 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Sep 14, 20224 min read
Â
Â
Â


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...
Q&Q Publishing
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Â
Â
Â


Choosing the Partner of His Future Life
By Susan Adriani, author of The Luxury of Silence ‘Reader, I married him’ It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? But courtship in Regency...
Q&Q Publishing
Jun 22, 20224 min read
Â
Â
Â


Distance and Time In Regency England
By Wade H. Mann, author of A Most Excellent Understanding When you read a lot of Regency fiction, the two things that seem to be the most...
Q&Q Publishing
Jun 8, 20227 min read
Â
Â
Â


Delicate Sensibilities and Weak Minds: The Education of Women and the Price of Ignorance
By Frances Reynolds, author of More Than A Pretty Face The education of upper-class and gentle-born girls during the Regency was very...
Q&Q Publishing
May 25, 20225 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page



