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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Love In The Time Of Listeria
By Amy D’Orazio, author of The Happiest Couple in the World They were a family of the name of Martin, whom Emma well knew by character,...
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May 11, 20224 min read
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Tables And Chairs: Furnishing A Georgian House
By Lucy Marin, author of The Marriage Bargain In The Marriage Bargain, Pemberley has suffered from neglect for years, and one of...
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Apr 20, 20225 min read
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Living With Disability in the Regency
By Jessie Lewis, co–author of A Match Made At Matlock In A Match Made At Matlock, one of the characters—Samuel Anderson—runs a charitable...
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Apr 7, 20227 min read
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The Five Best Things About A Georgian-Era Masquerade Ball
By Julie Cooper, co-author of A Match Made At Matlock 1. An Occasion for Angering Folks Like Mr Collins Moralists, clergymen, and the...
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Apr 5, 20226 min read
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Prudence and Privacy
By Mary Smythe, author of A Faithful Narrative Towards the end of Pride & Prejudice, Mary Bennet opines that “[a woman’s] reputation is...
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Mar 23, 20224 min read
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The Life of a Regency Clergyman
By Paige Badgett, author of Against Every Expectation “The rector of a parish has much to do. In the first place, he must make such an...
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Mar 9, 20223 min read
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Snowed In, Regency-Style
by Nan Harrison, author of Any Fair Interference March 7, 1814 Letter from Jane Austen in London to her sister Cassandra in Chawton:...
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Feb 23, 20226 min read
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Widows in Regency England
By Linda Gonschior, author of Bitter Mournings In Bitter Mournings, Elizabeth Matthews, née Bennet, is a young widow who had the changing...
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Feb 9, 20223 min read
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Siblings: The Austens, the Bennets, and the Crawfords
By Lucy Marin, author of Her Sisterly Love The title for Her Sisterly Love caused me a considerable amount of trouble. I had the plot...
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Jan 26, 20225 min read
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Epiphany: Celebrations & Revelations
by Jessie Lewis, author of Epiphany The action in Epiphany takes place over the winter of 1811, incorporating Christmastide and, you...
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Jan 12, 20223 min read
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The Great Library of Pemberley: The Bodleian Influence
By Julie Cooper, author of Nameless A key setting in Nameless is Pemberley’s library: a gentlemen’s library to end all gentlemen’s...
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Nov 20, 20215 min read
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Bachelor Parties? It's All Greek To Me
By Amy D'Orazio, author of So Material A Change Two days before the wedding saw the arrival of Darcy’s cousins at Netherfield. Saye,...
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Nov 18, 20214 min read
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