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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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Jul 11, 20234 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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Jun 14, 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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May 9, 20235 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 25, 20234 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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Apr 5, 20235 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 30, 20236 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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Mar 8, 20235 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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Feb 8, 20234 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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Jan 11, 20235 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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Dec 21, 20225 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 30, 20224 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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Nov 2, 20225 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 26, 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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Oct 11, 20226 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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Sep 28, 20225 min read


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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Sep 14, 20224 min read


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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Aug 10, 20224 min read


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...
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Jun 22, 20224 min read


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...
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Jun 8, 20227 min read


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...
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May 25, 20225 min read
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