Gentle readers, I am taking a short hiatus from this blog for Thanksgiving week. Meanwhile, enjoy these images of people dining in days of yore… Dining for most people was a simple affair and food was taken from the land. Many families, unless their house was large enough to accommodate a dining room, ate in [...]
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Family Dinners, Regency Style
Posted in Georgian Life, Holiday, jane austen, Jane Austen's life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency food, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, tagged dining in the Regency Era, food in the Regency era, Regency drinks, Regency family dinners, Regency holiday traditions, Thomas Rowlandson on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Comforts of Bath, 1798: Thomas Rowlandson
Posted in art, Bath, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, personal hygiene, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged 19th century medicine, 19th century physician, Bathing in Regency Bath, Regency Bath, Regency Medical treatment, Regency physicians, Thomas Rowlandson on November 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In 1798, the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew The Comforts of Bath, a series of satiric drawings. The cartoons were used to illustrate the 1858 edition of the New Bath Guide, written by Christopher Anstey and first published in 1766.* Rowlandson depicted both the social and medical scene in Bath just before the period described [...]
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, edited by Susannah Carson: A Review
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's enduring popularity, Jane Austen's World, Janeites, Popular culture, tagged A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, Susannah Carson on November 20, 2009 | 13 Comments »
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, edited by Susannah Carson asks the question: Why do we read Jane Austen? 33 authors answer why. Review of the book.
Fashions During Cassandra Austen’s Lifetime (1773-1845)
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Cassandra Austen, Regency Fashion on November 18, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Pretty Cassandra Austen, Jane Austen’s elder sister by two years, lived until the ripe age of 72 . This brief visual guide demonstrates how fashion changed during her lifetime. Wherever possible, I tried to represent Cassandra’s age and the clothes she would have worn during that period. I also used the paired women combination to [...]
Victorian and Edwardian Horse Cabs by Trevor May, a Book Review
Posted in jane austen, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency Transportation, Regency Travel, Regency walk, Victorian Era, Working class, tagged hackney cab, hansom cab, horse drawn cabs, Regency Transportation, Regency Travel on November 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Another book review so soon on this blog? Well, yes. This book from Shire Publications, Victorian and Edwardian Horse Cabs by Trevor May, is short, just 32 pages long, but it is filled with many facts and rare images of interest to lovers of history. In Jane Austen’s day most people walked to work, town, church, [...]
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, edited by Susannah Carson: An Interview
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency World, tagged A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, Critique of Jane Austen's novels, Random House, Susannah Carson on November 15, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I read these words on the book flab of the excellent new compilation, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, edited by Susannah Carson, foreword by Harold Bloom, “For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is [...]
Collision, PBS Masterpiece Contemporary: A Review
Posted in Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, tagged Collision, David Bamber, Douglas Henshall, Kate Ashfield, Marc Evans, Nicholas Farrell, PBS Masterpiece Contemporary on November 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
“Oh,” I thought, when I began to watch Collision, the new film offering on PBS’s Masterpiece Contemporary, “This looks like a TV version of Crash or Intersection.” But as the story unfolded in flashbacks and real time, I could not wait to see how the rest of this mystery about a six-car crash on the A-12 highway [...]
The Botanical Prints of Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840)
Posted in Regency style, Regency Art, jane austen, Napoleon, Regency World, Jane Austen's World, art, Regency Period, tagged Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Rose engravings, botanical prints, rose watercolors, flower prints, Jospehine Bonaparte on November 11, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s flower prints are so lush and detailed that you can almost pick the flowers off the page. In the famous rose print below, a single drop of water rests exquisitely on a rose petal of the top rose. Born in a family of artists*, Pierre-Joseph became known as the premier botanical illustrator of [...]
An Interview With Jane Odiwe, Author of Willoughby’s Return
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen Sequels, Regency style, tagged Jane Odiwe, SourceBooks, Willoughby's Return on November 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Three years after Miss Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, Willoughby returns. She is thrown into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite feelings of uncertainty, for she is hurt and jealous over the Colonel’s attentions towards Eliza, his ward. Willoughby is as charming, as roguish, and as much in love with Marianne as ever. And [...]
Regency Hairstyles and their Accessories
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged regency dress, Regency Fashion, Regency Hairstyle on November 7, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Everything we now use is made [in] imitation of those models lately discovered in Italy. – Observation by an Englishman In the late 18th century, hairstyles for women took a dramatic turn from the pouffed-up and constructed hairdos of the earlier Georgian age to the simple hair styles inspired by the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. [...]
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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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