We have come to associate the Regency period with fine white, high-waisted muslin dresses that were beautifully detailed and embroidered. Until quite recently in human history, a lady did not roam far from her sewing basket. She would mend, sew, and embroider whenever she had spare time. (Even the finest lady in the land could [...]
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18th & 19th Century Whitework Embroidery
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, Sewing, tagged Regency fabrics, Regency Fashion on February 27, 2010 | 25 Comments »
Persuasion 2007: Encore Presentation on Masterpiece Classic
Posted in Popular culture, jane austen, Movie review, Regency World, Regency Life, PBS Movie Adaptation, Persuasion, Jane Austen's World, tagged PBS Masterpiece Classic, Persuasion 2007, Rupert Penry Jones, Sally Hawkins on February 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »
PBS Masterpiece Classic will show an encore presentation of Persuasion 2007 tonight. If you missed this 90-minute film the first time, you will have a chance to see it at 9 PM EST. (Check your local listing). Vic’s posts about Persuasion 2007: My Review of the Film on PBS’s blog: Remotely Connected Persuasion 2007: A [...]
Diderot’s Tailors and Seamstresses in his Ground Breaking Encyclopedia
Posted in 18th Century France, Georgian Life, jane austen, Regency style, tagged Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia: the Rational Dictionary of the Sciences, Seamstress, Sewing, Tailors on February 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Diderot’s revolutionary Encyclopedia standardized knowledge and changed people’s way of thinking
Pugalicious: The Pug in Mansfield Park and the 19th Century
Posted in jane austen, Mansfield Park, tagged Dogs in the 19th Century, Lady Bertram, Mansfield Park Pug, Pugs, Regency dogs on February 16, 2010 | 9 Comments »
…they are very affectionate and playful, and bear the confinement of the house better than many other breeds, racing over the carpets in their play as freely as others do over the turf. For this reason, as well as the sweetness of their skins, and their short and soft coats, they are much liked by [...]
Northanger Abbey: Reviews
Posted in jane austen, Movie review, Northanger Abbey, PBS Movie Adaptation, tagged Northanger Abbey, Northanger Abbey review, PBS Masterpiece Classic, PBS Movie Adaptation on February 14, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Two years ago PBS offered Northanger Abbey during Jane Austen Season. Tonight we are having an encore presentation. Such fun! For information about this series, click on this PBS link. For my original review and others, click on the links below! Northanger Abbey: My Review Beechen Cliffs and Natural Surroundings The Three Northanger Abbey Films [...]
La Belle Assemblée (1806-1832): Regency periodical
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, tagged Fashion in the regency, La Belle Assemblee 1807 on February 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When it first appeared in February 1806, La Belle Assemblée claimed to be ‘an entirely original and most interesting work, addressed to the ladies’. However, the new magazine entered a market that was already well established. Periodicals directed particularly at leisured women had existed since the late seventeenth century, and with the success of the [...]
Images of A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Podcasts, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency Period, Regency society, Regency World, tagged A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy, Declan Kiely, Morgan Library on February 10, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Last month I wrote about my trip to the Morgan Library in New York to view A Woman’s Wit:Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy, and of my impressions of the letters. But I didn’t mention the many other interesting artifacts: the Gillray prints of a lady dressing and Rowlandson’s caricature of The Comforts of Bath, the [...]
Emma 2009 revisited
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, tagged Emma 2009, Emma 2009 poll, Jonny Lee Miller, PBS Masterpiece Classic, PBS Movie Adaptation, PBS Movie Review, Romola Garai, Sandy Welch on February 7, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Jane Austen had a few ideas about what would happen to some of her characters in the future. Emma’s Mr. Woodhouse would live for two more years after his daughter’s marriage to Mr. Knightley, and the letters from Frank Churchill that Jane Fairfax placed before her contained the word “pardon.” These little tidbits of information [...]
Regency Books in My Review Queue
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Anna Dean, Bellfield Hall, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Jane Austen Mashups, Jane Austen: Christian Encounters, Mansfield Park and Mummies, Peter Leithart, Steve Hockensmith, Vera Nazarian on February 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Four recently released books about Jane Austen or the Regency period are in my review queue. The weather man forecasts snow, so I can’t think of a better way of spending the weekend than to curl up in front of a cheery fire and read these new additions to my library shelves: Bellfield Hall: A [...]
The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer: A Review
Posted in Book review, Georgette Heyer, Georgian Life, Georgian London, jane austen, tagged Georgette Heyer, SourceBooks, The Masqueraders on February 2, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Inquiring readers: I have no doubt you shall enjoy this review of Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders by my good friend, Lady Anne, an expert when it comes to the subject of this author. Lady Anne has read Georgette Heyer’s novels for most of her years upon this earth. Smart, sassy, fabulous, well tressed and well [...]
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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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