Happy 200th Birthday, Elizabeth Gaskell! Although your life was cut short at 55, you still cast a bright light in our world. “No, I tell you it’s the poor, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don’t think to come over me with th’ old tale, that the rich know nothing [...]
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell-(1810-1865): A short description of her life and literary career
Posted in Victorian Era, Working class, tagged Charles Dickens, Cranford, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Knutsford, Manchester, Victorian poor, William Gaskell, Wives and Daughters on September 29, 2010 | 57 Comments »
Win a Copy of Dancing With Mr. Darcy
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Popular culture, tagged Book Contest, Chawton House, Dancing With Mr Darcy, Sarah Waters on September 27, 2010 | 102 Comments »
Elated readers: You have a chance of winning one of three copies of Dancing With Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library, and compiled by Sarah Waters. The book will be available in your local bookstore on October 19th! For a chance to win, just leave your comment. Please address this [...]
Review of Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged David M. Shapard, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice An Annotated Edition on September 25, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Jane Austen scholar Patricia Meyer Spacks has written many books, but none so lush and lovely as Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition. Not only will this beautiful annotated edition of Jane Austen’s beloved novel look fabulous on your coffee table, but after reading it you will feel that you’ve come to understand Pride and [...]
Falling Darkness, Review of an Inspector Lewis Episode on PBS Masterpiece Mystery!
Posted in Movie review, Popular culture, tagged Falling Darkness, Inspector Lewis, Inspector Lewis Review, Kevin Whateley, Laurence Fox, PBS Masterpiece Mystery Review, PBS Masterpiece Mystery! on September 25, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Falling Darkness, the final episode of season 3 of Inspector Lewis on PBS Masterpiece Mystery! begins on Halloween Eve, a night when the moon is full and young goblins go from house to house trick or treating. The viewer is witness to Inspector Lewis’s playful reaction as children in costume arrive at his doorstep. But [...]
Cassandra Austen’s Conflicting Age in the 1841 Census: Uncovering the Mystery?
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged 1841 Chawton Census, Cassandra Austen, Henry Austen on September 24, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Gentle readers, I am often asked questions by readers, some of which I answer and some of which go unrecognized. Be assured that if you are a student looking for me to do your research when all you have to do is poke into my pages, I shall remain silent. But if your question is [...]
Jane Austen Went to School
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged A Pretty Little Pocket Book 1744, Jane Austen's school, John Newberry, Reading Abbey, Reading Gateway, Regency schooling on September 20, 2010 | 17 Comments »
This post about Jane Austen’s experiences in boarding school at a young age was written by Tony Grant, who is a frequent contributor. Tony also writes for his own blog, London Calling. In 1782 at the age of 7 Jane Austen went to school for the first time. Theories go that she wanted to go [...]
Inspector Lewis: Your Sudden Death Question. Review of a PBS Masterpiece Mystery!
Posted in Popular culture, jane austen, Movie review, tagged PBS Movie Review, PBS Masterpiece Mystery!, Inspector Lewis, Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Inspector Lewis Review, Masterpiece Mystery Online, Clare Holman, Dr. Laura Hobson on September 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Inspector Lewis: Your Sudden Death Question. Review of a PBS Masterpiece Mystery!
Scents and Sensibility
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Movie review, Popular culture, Regency World, tagged Scents and Sensibility, Sense and Sensibility on September 17, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Inquiring readers, Adriana Zardini from the Jane Austen Society of Brazil, wrote this post for her blog and sent it on to me! Do visit Adriana’s lovely site, which comes with a translator! A new version of Sense and Sensibility? Take a look on IDMB page. I discovered today a new movie being filmed there [...]
Food in Merrye Olde England: Meat and its Preservation in the 19th Century
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency food, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency World, tagged 19th century butchers, curing meat, Feeding 19th century London, salting meat, Smithfield Market on September 15, 2010 | 8 Comments »
By the turn of the 19th century, over one million people lived and worked in London and its environs. The challenge in feeding so many people was no mean feat. Surrounding farms sent produce to London’s markets, and drovers brought sheep and cattle over deeply rutted and ancient roads from as far north as Scotland. Every [...]
Sneak Peek of Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Pride and Prejudice, tagged Patricia Meyer Spacks, Pride and Prejudice An Annotated Edition on September 14, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Coming in October is the new annotated edition of Pride and Prejudice by Patricia Myer Spacks. Here’s a peek I took for you of this beautifully illustrated and informative book. Click here to view this blog listed at Harvard University Press. I’m chuffed!
Watch Inspector Lewis Online: Dark Matter, a PBS Masterpiece Mystery!
Posted in Popular culture, jane austen, Movie review, tagged PBS Movie Review, PBS Masterpiece Mystery!, Inspector Lewis, Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Inspector Lewis Review, Dark Matter, Masterpiece Mystery Online on September 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Dark Matter, the third installment of season three of Inspector Lewis, is available online from September 13 through October 12. In this episode, Professor Andrew Crompton, an amateur astronomer and the Master of Gresham College, is found dead at the foot of the University Observatory stairs. Lewis and Hathaway investigate the dark goings on among [...]
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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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