The Antique Prints Blog offers a wonderful post about Ackermann’s Print Shop with excellent illustrations. I will definitely be visiting this site often!
Archive for March, 2010
Seen Over the Ether: Antique Prints Blog
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Art, Regency World, tagged Ackermann Print Shop, Antique Print Shop, Seen over the ether on March 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen, by Sarah Jane Downing: A Review
Posted in Book review, Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, tagged Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen, Regency Fashion, Sarah Jane Downing, Shire Library on March 29, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing is a short book about fashions in the Regency era.
Transferring Embroidery Patterns to Muslin
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Ackermann sewing patterns, embroidery patterns, muslin sewing patterns, regency muslin on March 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Gentle reader – a few weeks ago someone asked me how the beautiful muslin patterns that Ackermann’s Repository of Fashions offered in its magazines could be transferred. This 19th century Enclyclopedia from Project Gutenberg offers practical suggestions. Among them are: Tracing patterns against a window pane.—In order to copy a pattern in this way, the [...]
Regency Window Treatments: Ackermann Plates
Posted in Architecture, jane austen, Regency Art, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, tagged Ackermanns Repository, Regency furniture, Regency Interiors, Regency window treatments and draperies, Window treatments 1815-1820 on March 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Ah, spring. Time to open the windows and air the rooms … and to consider redecorating. Ackermann’s Repository (1809-1829) didnt just cover fashion. The magazine also featured furniture and embroidery patterns, for example, and window treatments. This is simply a visual post. Enjoy!
London Bookseller Shop: Chambers’ Book of Days
Posted in Architecture, jane austen, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency World, tagged Bookseller in London, Chambers Book of Days, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Chamber’s Book of Days was written in 1869. It is organized according to the days of the calendar and serves up history in the way that our ancestors saw it. I have found it to be a treasure of information about late Regency and Victorian London. Click here to read about the book. Below sits an [...]
Cute Tuesday: A Regency Image of Mother and Child
Posted in art, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Jane Austen's image, John Russell, Mrs Robert Shurlock 1801 on March 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Jane Austen was born in 1775, the same year as Mrs. Robert Shurlock (born Henrietta Ann Jane Russell). Had Jane married and given birth to a child in 1801, would she have presented as charming a picture as Mrs. Shurlock and her daughter Ann? Both women would have been twenty-six years of age at the [...]
Jane Austen: Christian Encounters by Peter Leithart – A Review
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, tagged Jane Austen and Christianity, Peter Leithart on March 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Jane Austen: Christian Encounters arrived on my doorstep unsolicited. I read it with some trepidation, for the title seemed to reek of Sunday morning sermons from a stern minister, worse, from a silly man like Mr. Collins or Mr. Elton. I discovered with pleasant delight that Peter Leithart, a theology teacher at New St. Andrews [...]
Sanditon: Jane Austen by the Seaside
Posted in Fashions, Holiday, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Regency sea bathing, Regency seaside fashions, Sanditon on March 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m a little late for the party, but a full day still remains until Laurel Ann at Austenprose finishes her in-depth tour of Sanditon, Jane Austen’s last, unfinished novel. Click on this page to catch up on all the links and comments and guest posts. Read more about the seaside and seaside fashions on this [...]
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Northanger Abbey, tagged C.E.Brock, General Tilney, H.M. Brock on March 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, 1915, a digitized book on the Internet Archive, contains illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock. Click on the link to read Northanger Abbey. “The General attended her himself to the street door, making her one of the most graceful bows she had ever beheld when they parted.”
Jane Austen’s Music
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's life, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Jane Austen's music, Jane Austen's Regency World magazine, Where the Bee Sucks on March 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
… or music Jane listened to. Recently Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine sent a CD along with the issue. The songs include music popular in Jane’s time. I’ve included this musical number from YouTube: Thomas Arne’s “Where the Bee Sucks”, sung by a young lady named Sarah. Jane Austen in Vermont has posted the list of [...]
A Walk With Jane Austen in Bath
Posted in A Walk With Jane Austen, Architecture, Bath, Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency Travel, Regency World, tagged Amanda Parr, Bath, Walk through Bath on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This link to the BBC site will lead you to a video of a walk with Amanda Parr through Bath. You will need a Real Player. Other posts about Bath on this site: The Comforts of Bath: Thomas Rowlandson The Viscount and the Toll Keeper’s Daughter: How Thomas Thynne Never Became the Marquess of Bath [...]
Jane Austen Walk in Tonbridge
Posted in A Walk With Jane Austen, jane austen, Jane Austen videos, Jane Austen's World, Regency World, tagged George Austen, Jane Austen's family, Reverend George Austen, Tonbridge on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Upper School, Tonbridge, Where George Austen taught A circular walk in Tonbridge celebrates the family links of Jane Austen, including Tonbridge School, where Jane’s father studied and taught. Learn more about Jane Austen’s family in this fascinating video. Learn more about Jane Austen’s Tonbridge relations in this link to Tonbridge History. Read the first chapter [...]
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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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