Interview with Tracy Kiely, the author of Murder at Longbourn, a mystery in the Austenesque/Agatha Christie style
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Murder at Longbourn: An Interview With Author Tracy Kiely
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, tagged Austenesque murder mystery, Murder at Longbourn, Tracy Kiely on August 31, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Inspector Lewis Returns to PBS Mystery!
Posted in Movie review, Popular culture, tagged And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea, Counter Culture Blues, Inspector Lewis, Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Life Born of Fire, PBS Masterpiece Mystery!, PBS Mystery!, Sergeant Hathaway, The Great and the Good, The Point of Vanishing, Tom Riley on August 30, 2009 | 18 Comments »
For a review of Inspector Lewis Series III, 2010, Counter Culture Blues, Click Here. The Point of Vanishing was this season’s last Inspector Lewis episode. What a fine way to end a fine season. If you have missed the episode, click here to view it online for one more week. Here’s the episode’s synopsis: “Steven [...]
What Men Wore at Regency Assembly Balls
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Assembly Rooms, Clifton Assembly Rooms, Cloak Room, Public Assembly Room, Regency Dance, Regency Dandy, regency dress, Rolinda Sharples on August 29, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Rolinda Sharple’s 1817 painting, The Cloak Room at The Clifton Assembly Rooms, depicts several styles of men’s fashions.
A View From Jane Austen’s Bedroom Window
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Chawton Cottage, Chawton House, Jane Austen's House on August 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Gentle Reader, Keith Mallett wrote to me to say that he visited his homeland of England for the first time in 35 years after moving to Australia. One of his fondest memories of the trip is of a visit to Chawton. When he was a teenager living in England he used to almost drive past [...]
In my review queue: Murder at Longbourn
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, tagged Murder at Longbourn, Tracy Kiely on August 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely has Austenesque overtones, but it is a standout and stand alone debut novel.
Regency Era Fashion Plates, 1800-1819: A Review
Posted in Book review, Fashions, jane austen, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Regency era fashion plates, Regency Fashion, Timely Tresses on August 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Book review of Regency Era Fashion Plates, 1800-1819 by Timely Tresses
Perils of the Sea: Shipwrecks off Dorset’s Deadly Coast
Posted in jane austen, Regency Life, Regency World, Travel, tagged Earl of Abergavenny shipwreck, John Wordsworth, Sea rescue 18th century, Ship Wrecks off Dorset Coast, The Halsewell, William Wordsworth on August 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Sea – Ship – drowned – Shipwreck – so it came, The meek, the brave, the good, was gone: He who had been our living John Was nothing but a name. – William Wordsworth In 1805, John Wordsworth, a captain employed by the East India Company and younger brother of the poet William Wordsworth, died [...]
Favorite Regency Fashion Sites
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Regency style, Regency World, tagged David Brass Rare Books, regency dress, Regency Fashion on August 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Internet sites featuring Regency era clothes, which are among my favorites
The well-dressed Regency boy wore a skeleton suit
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged John Hoppner, Kate Greenaway, Regency boys' wear, Regency Fashion, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Skeleton suits on August 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Once upon a time children wore miniature versions of their parents’ clothing styles. Then, in 1780 or 1790, depending on the source you read, children began to be dressed differently, wearing fashions designed just for them. Not that small boys, left to their own devices, would have worn high-waisted, ankle length trousers made of heavy [...]
Kate Greenaway: Nostalgic Victorian Illustrations about the Regency Era
Posted in jane austen, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway, Regency era art on August 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Kate Greenaway’s Regency illustrations are still popular today
Seaside Fashion, Regency Style
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Bathing machines, Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Regency seaside fashions, Vanity Fair 1998 on August 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Inquiring reader, in honor of this week’s tepid heat wave in Richmond, I continue my coverage of all things seaside during the Regency era. To our moderns eyes, Regency fashions by the seashore covered as much of the body as ordinary clothes, and were as complicated as regular fashions. Let’s take a closer look. I [...]
Martha Gunn, Brighton’s Queen of the Dippers
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Brighton dipper, Martha Gunn, Regency Brighton on August 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »
In a scene in 1998′s Vanity Fair with Natasha Little as Becky Sharp, she visits Brighton with her husband and friends. The film, set during the Regency era, depicted a scene in which one of the party is taken from a bathing machine and dipped into the cold waters by a large woman. The bather [...]
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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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