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Seen Over the Ether: Box Hill Revisited
Posted in Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Box Hill, Picnic at Box Hill on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Little Dorrit and Bankruptcy: PBS Masterpiece Classic
Posted in jane austen, Masterpiece Classic, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, Regency World, Victorian Era, tagged Anton Lesser, Arthur Clennam, Bernard Madoff, Charles Dickens, Claire Foy, investment schemes, Little Dorrit, Marshalsea Debtor's Prison, Matthew Mcfadyen, Mr. Merdle, Victorian Era on April 26, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Bankruptcy in Little Dorrit and Merdle’s downfall as described by Charles Dickens
Jane Austen Illustrator: Joan Hassall’s Wood Engravings
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, tagged Jane Austen illustrators, Joan Hassall, wood engraving on April 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Joan Hassall engraved illustrations for Jane Austen’s six novels in popular editions from the Folio Society
La Belle Assemblée 1807: Kensington Garden Dresses
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged La Belle Assemblee 1807, regency dress, Regency Fashion on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
La Belle Assemblée was an influential taste and fashion magazine in the 19th century. This post is about the 1807 edition.
The Governess in the Age of Jane Austen
Posted in Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, Servants, tagged Governess, Servants on April 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace, and hope, to penance and mortification forever” – Jane Austen about Jane Fairfax in Emma Working as a governess meant a life of limbo for the poor [...]
Little Dorrit and The Grand Tour: PBS Masterpiece Classic
Posted in Popular culture, jane austen, Movie review, Regency World, Regency Life, Masterpiece Classic, PBS Movie Adaptation, Regency Transportation, Jane Austen's World, Regency Period, tagged Grand Tour, Little Dorrit, Tom Courtenay, PBS Masterpiece Classic, Venice, Mrs. General, Pam Ferris on April 12, 2009 | 8 Comments »
In Little Dorrit, William Dorrit takes his family on a grand tour after he leaves Marshalsea Prison. There they remain on a prolonged visit to Venice, where he eventually dies.
Seen Over the Ether: A Jane Austen Easter
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Mansfield Park, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged hot cross buns, Jane Austen Easter on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Traditional Easter foods and customs are discussed in this post.
Jane Austen’s Writing (Sloping) Desk
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Jane Austen's writing box, Letter Writing in Jane Austen's Time, letter writing in the regency era, writing boxes, writing desk, writing slopes on April 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Jane Austen’s writing (sloping) desk can be viewed at the British Library
Historic Dancing Shoes and Regency Slippers
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Regency Fashion, Regency shoes on April 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Regency shoes
Little Dorrit: The Father of the Marshalsea – The Prison Within the Prisoner
Posted in Movie review, Regency World, Regency Life, Jane Austen's World, tagged Masterpiece Classic, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, William Dorrit, Tom Courtenay, Marshalsea Debtor's Prison, PBS Masterpiece Classic, John Dickens, John Howard, Marshalsea on April 6, 2009 | 10 Comments »
William Dorrit is unable to leave the prison of his mind when he is released from Marshalsea Debtor’s prison.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Review of a High Concept Parody
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged flesh eating zombies, Jane Austen and Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith on April 4, 2009 | 39 Comments »
This review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is as tongue in cheek as the book.
Seen Over the Ether: Women’s Hairstyles and Clothing in Period Films
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged period films, regency dress, Regency Fashion, Regency Hairstyle on April 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Regency hairstyles and fashions are often inaccurately depicted in period film adaptations. The articles at these links will tell you why.
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- Five Regency tea cups: The book is not perfect (few books are), but it was well worth its purchase and possesses many outstanding qualities that makes it stand head and shoulders above its counterparts.
- Four Regency tea cups: This book offered many hours of pleasant reading, and I found I could not put it down.
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