Author: Regina Jeffers
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The End
There’s a sad sort of clangingFrom the clock in the hallAnd the bells in the steeple, too;And up in the nurs’ryAn absurd little birdIs popping out to say “coo-coo.”(Coo-coo, coo-coo.)Regretfully they tell usBut firmly they compel usTo say goodbye to you . . .So long, farewell,Auf Wiedersehen, good night. [“So Long, Farewell” from The Sound of…
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Re-Release of “Darcy’s Passions: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling” from Regina Jeffers and Ulysses Press, Arriving 2/3/2026
For fans of historical romance like the Bridgerton novels to lovers of alternative point-of-view books like E. L. James’ Grey and Stephenie Meyers’s Midnight Sun, Darcy’s Passions invites readers into the heart and mind of Fitzwilliam Darcy, revealing the hidden thoughts and intense emotions that fueled his riveting courtship of Elizabeth Bennet. While the Bennet sisters are discussing the next ball to…
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“Lyon in Disguise: The Lyon’s Den Connected World” from Dragonblade Publishing, Releasing December 17 from Regina Jeffers
Lyon in Disguise: Lyon’s Den Connected World A handsome rake meets his match in a red-headed enchantress who is his enemy! They may be on different sides of the law, but Lord Navan Beaufort is not going to permit that to stop him from protecting Miss Audrey Moreau. Navan has never thought truly to love…
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York Castle’s Role in the Final Chapter of “Lyon in Disguise” from Dragonblade Publishing (Arriving 17 December 2025)
The final chapter of Lyon in Disguise, which releases December 17 and is currently on preorder, is set around the York, England, and specifically York Castle. At the time the story is set, meaning late 1812 and early 1813, York Castle was used as a prison and a place for hanging of criminals. The last…
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Where Would One Find Sheet Music in the Regency Era?
Although quite expensive, sheet music was readily available during the Regency era. Many a person subscribed to services offered by music publishers, among the Schirmer, the most well known of the time. Sheet music was produced for subscribers in bound volumes. This volumes would contain a selection of songs, including popular ones of the times,…
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A Year Without Summer, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne
Imagine a year without summer – and one haunted by apocalyptic portents, at that. It sounds nightmarish – and yet that was exactly the kind of year Jane Austen had lived through in 1816, not long before her own departure from the world. So, what caused it? On the 10th of April 1815, Mount Tambora…
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Autumn in the Regency Era, a Post from Ann Hawthorne
Now that autumn is upon us, we are all awakening to the delights of crispy fallen leaves and misty mellow mornings. However, for Jane Austen’s contemporaries, especially those living in the country, the changing of the seasons would have meant far more than that. Ash trees, which were considered a great adornment of any country…
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“Order and Disorder” and the Release of “Crime and Culpability”
Tomorrow, September 10, marks the release of a new Jane Austen Mystery Anthology. Crime and Culpability features seven short story mysteries, including one from our own Always Austen author, Riana Everly, as well as Jeanette Watts, Elizabeth Gilliland, Michael Rands, Linné Elizabeth, Emma Dalgety, and me. I also wrote the book’s foreward. My story is…
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Private Theatricals During the Regency, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne
Ann Hawthorne loves her research and this piece on private theatricals, we learn something of how the Austen family might have put on productions of their own. We usually associate private theatricals with half-baked, somewhat childish business, but in the Georgian and Regency era, it was taken extremely seriously. The great and the (sometimes less-than-)…
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The Real Mary Crawford, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne
Eliza de Feullide, nee Hancock, was born in Calcutta, India, in the year 1761. Her mother Philadelphia had been George Austen’s older sister, and thus Jane Austen’s aunt. One can say Eliza had been raising eyebrows in polite society since her birth, because that was when the rumours of her illegitimacy started. There were people…