Category: Georgian era
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Add a Little Light to the Situation
Good morrow, dear readers. Are you having a lovely July? I am trying – and mildly succeeding – to get back to writing this month. As I mentioned last time, it was reading Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women in the light of our kerosene lamps which first opened my eyes to the parallels betwixt my…
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When Mercury was a Cure-all
Everyone who reads my books knows that I have the Miss Bennets, particularly Mary, and, at times, Charlotte Lucas to be extraordinarily capable alchemists in the stillroom. Rarely is it without a later purpose, from scented waters that may be included in travel kits to medicinals that Miss Kitty needs to ease her cough to…
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Dear Grandmamma
Hello! I am taking a break from editing to give you an update and share a little bit I wrote in order to fill a hole. By the time you read this, An Interrupted Proposal should be on its way to the editor. (Next month, I’ll share the cover.) Before it can go, I have…
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Drinking like a Regency Buck
What if you were praised for drinking lots of alcohol? In Regency England, you could be! Well… if you were a wealthy man. Nowadays, we think that immoderate drinking is a sign of weakness. However, back in the 1800s, it was often considered to be something between a neutral trait and, in some circles, a…
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Danger: Rabbit Holes
I love writing Regency era Pride and Prejudice variations. At heart, I am a history geek and getting to do research for my writing is probably the best thing ever (unless I’m being too specific and run into brick walls). I’ll even do research “just in case” I decide to include something in a book…
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The End (Finally)
I am certain you will be glad to hear that I am finally bringing An Interrupted Proposal to an end. Unfortunately, there are rewrites and covers and editing to be done before it can be released. But I have 2 book festivals this fall so it will be out by the beginning of September, at…
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It’s a Steal!!! However – in other news – the BBC has aced MISS AUSTEN (the TV series)!!!!
#MissAusten #JaneAusten #PrideAndPerjury #JAFF #HistoricalFiction Everyone here will know, by now, about Meta’s immoral and illegal “scraping” of well over SEVEN MILLION books, in order to train generative language AI – without compensating a single author, out of the seven million of us concerned (of whom I’m one.) However, it still came as a shock…
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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 Visit to Netherfield Park
Hello fabulous readers! Though I took off the month of March to rest and make plans for a few months out of school, I did prepare another excerpt of An Interrupted Proposal. If you want to get caught up or reread the prior posts, here are the links (in the proper order): What if?, What if?…
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How Far We Have Come?
Since the sun crossed the earth’s equinox at 5:01am EDT yesterday morning, I wish a very Happy Spring to my dear Northern Hemisphere readers, and a most Happy Autumn to my dear Southern Hemisphere readers! (No, my nerdiness is not restricted to Regency trivia.) At the time this blog posts, it will have been 13…