Dorset Public Inns With a Literary Connection showcases a number of inns with connections to John Cowper Powys, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson, and John Fowles. Constance Hill, author of Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends, identifies the lodging in Persuasion as the Royal Lion Inn: Now the inn to which they [...]
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Royal Lion Inn: A Dorset Public Inn With a Jane Austen Connection
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Persuasion, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged Lyme Regis, Regency inns, Royal Lion Inn on September 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Labor of Street Orderlies in 19th C. London
Posted in jane austen, Victorian Era, Working class, tagged Crossing Sweepers, Henry Mayhew, London poor, Street Cleaners, Victorian London, Working class on September 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
When horses drew every imaginable wagon in London, crossing sweepers were a common sight. In some areas of town they were regarded a nuisance, for often young boys would pester a pedestrian and sweep a clear path whether that person wanted their help or not. The practice of using crossing sweepers to clean the streets [...]
Emma, 1996: Bucolic Scenes & the Industrial Revolution
Posted in jane austen, Masterpiece Classic, PBS Movie Adaptation, Working class, tagged 18th c. agricultural practices, Emma, Emma Woodhouse, harvesting grain, Industrial Revolution, Kate Beckinsale on September 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Emma 1996 with Kate Beckinsale featured agricultural scenes and a Harvest Ball
Watch Little Dorrit Online
Posted in Popular culture, tagged PBS Movie Adaptation, Little Dorrit, PBS Masterpiece Classic on September 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In celebration of Little Dorrit’s remarkable seven wins at the emmys, PBS will be showing the series online for a limited time. The duration of online availability is through Sept 29, so hurry and click here to watch this well-crafted and outstanding show in its entirety. USA only. So sorry, our other country friends.
Saving Georgian Bath
Posted in Architecture, Book review, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Georgian Architecture, James Lees-Milne, Regency Bath on September 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
James Lees-Milne embarked on a successful campaign during the 1970′s to save Georgian architecture in the center of Bath.
Little Girls’ Regency Dresses
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, tagged Regency Fashion, Young girl's fashion in the Regency era on September 22, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Prior to the 19th century, children were dressed as miniature adults… Children’s fashion often preceded similar changes in adult clothing. Simple frocks for girls in the closing decades of the 18th century foreshadowed the fashionable high-waisted, neo-classical style that would become popular for women during the first decades of the 19th century. This pastoral image [...]
The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Post Roads and Post-Boys
Posted in Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged letter writing in the regency era, Post Roads, Post-Boys, Regency roads, Royal Mail on September 12, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Gentle reader: This is the second of a series of three posts about the postal service in 18th century Britain. The first, Letters and the Penny-Post, can be read at this link. These posts are written in conjunction with Austenprose’s discussion of Lady Susan, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters, and thus [...]
The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Letters and the Penny-Post
Posted in Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency letters, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged History of the General Post Office in Britain, Letter Writing in Jane Austen's Time on September 9, 2009 | 14 Comments »
History of letters and the penny-post in Britain
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely: A Review
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Popular culture, tagged Murder at Longbourn, Tracy Kiely on September 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely is a fun murder mystery read!
Upper Seymour Street and Portman Square in Regency London
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency style, Regency World, tagged James Wyatt, Lady Susan, Portman Square, Robert Adam, Robert Adam Interior, Upper Seymour Street on September 4, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Jane Austen’s anti-heroine, Lady Susan, wrote letters to her friend Mrs Johnson on Upper Seymour Street, near Portman Square
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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.
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