“Invite him to dinner, Emma, and help him to the best of the fish and the chicken, but leave him to choose his own wife.” – Jane Austen, Emma By the time breakfast was served in a regency household, the family had been up for a while. After rising, people would engage in tasks such [...]
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Daily Life in the Regency Era: Meal Schedules
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged Daily life in the regency period, daily schedule in the regency era on June 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
View ‘Mrs. McGinty’s Dead’ Online at PBS: Hercule Poirot Mystery
Posted in Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Hercule Poirot, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, PBS Movie Adaptation, PBS Mystery! on June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve spent another pleasant Sunday evening with Hercule Poirot as he solves the murder of Mrs. McGinty in the small village of Broadhinney. The murderer has already been convicted and is sentenced to die by hanging, and detective Poirot has only two weeks in which to find the actual murderer. His gray matter working overtime, [...]
My Lord John by Georgette Heyer: A Review
Posted in Book review, Popular culture, tagged Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, Historical novel, My Lord John on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gentle Readers, My friend, Hillary Major, a fan of history and recent Georgette Heyer convert, graciously agreed to review Source Books’ latest release of My Lord John, which was published posthumously. You can purchase the book at this link. Many Heyer readers may be surprised to learn that the Middle Ages, not the Regency era, [...]
Regency Ladies at Play
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged bowling, nine pins, regency games, Regency sports, shuttlecock on June 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Healthful Sports for Young Ladies was written by Mlle St. Sernin, a French governess, and delightfully illustrated by Jean Demosthene Dugourc (1749-1825). The book, which described exercises that were appropriate for young ladies, was printed in London in 1822 by W. Clowes for R. Ackermann. The book can be viewed in the digital collection at [...]
The Cat Among the Pigeons, or Skullduggery in a Girl’s School: Review of a Hercule Poirot PBS Mystery!
Posted in Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, PBS Movie Review, PBS Mystery!, PBS show, The Cat Among the Pigeons on June 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Cat Among the Pigeons, the new Hercule Poirot mystery on PBS’s Mystery was as satisfying an Agatha Cristie mystery as I’ve seen in a long time. If you missed this episode on June 21, PBS will make it availabe for online viewing between June 22 and July 5, 2009. Written in 1959, this novel [...]
Lighting Georgian and Regency London
Posted in Georgian Life, Georgian London, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged Georgian street lights, Lamplighter on June 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In Oxford Road alone there are more lamps than in all the city of Paris. Even the great roads, for seven or eight miles round, are crowded with them, which makes the effect exceedingly grand. – Archenholtz, 1780s Urban development in London grew at a rapid rate during the 18th century, especially in London’s West [...]
Cost of Maintaining a Horse in Regency London
Posted in jane austen, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, Travel, tagged carriages, Coaches, Cost of a horse in London, Gower Mews, Regency Transportation, Regency Travel on June 18, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The cost of maintaining horses and carriages in London was extremely expensive in Regency England. It still is today.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey: Criminal Justice in Days of Yore
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Criminal Justice in the Regency era, proceedings of the Old Bailey, The Old Bailey on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Many websites and blogs dealing with the Regency and Georgian eras link to the Proceedings of The Old Bailey, which features transcripts from courts between 1674 and 1913. Or as one man put it, “the best accounts we shall ever have of what transpired in ordinary English criminal courts before the later eighteenth century.” These [...]
Regency Servants: Maid of All Work
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Servants, tagged Maid of All Work, Mrs. Beeton, Regency Servants on June 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The general servant, or maid-of-all-work, is perhaps the only one of her class deserving of commiseration: her life is a solitary one, and in, some places, her work is never done. She is also subject to rougher treatment than either the house or kitchen-maid – Mrs. Isabella Beeton Gracie, the maid of all work in [...]
The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer, A Review
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Georgette Heyer, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, SourceBooks, The Corinthian, The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer on June 12, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer, a review. Sourcebooks has released the book in June 2009
A Grim Reality: The Life of a Coach Horse in the Regency Era
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, Travel, tagged coaching days, Regency Transportation, Regency Travel, treatment of horses in teh 19th century on June 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Horses that pulled coaches in early 19th century Britain led a hard life
Regency Riding Habits
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Regency Life, Regency style, tagged fashion influences, Napoleonic war, riding costumes, Riding habits, Shako, The Grand Sophy, The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Female riding habits at the turn of the 19th century were influenced by the military style.
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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.
- Three Regency tea cups: Damned with faint praise. I put the book down often, but was intrigued enough to finish it. In this instance, the movie might be better.
- Two Regency tea cups: This book required major changes that the author and editor should have fixed before publishing deadline.
- One Regency tea cup: Oh dear. I do so feel for the trees that sacrificed their lives for this verbal garbage.
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