What can be more appropriate than to discuss body snatching on the very weekend of All Hallow’s Eve, when witches and goblins and ghosts wander throughout the night? This post will offer a variety of facts about grave robbers, resurrectionists, and sack-em-up gentlemen who haunted cemeteries, waiting for a fresh body to snatch. Since the [...]
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Body Snatching: A Most Ghoulish 19th Century Affair
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged 18th century medical school, Anatomists, Body Snatchers, Burke and Hare, grave robbing, John Landis, Resurrectionists, William Burke, William Hare on October 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
At 2 million visitors, Jane Austen’s World is Going Strong – Book Giveaway as a Thank You
Posted in jane austen on October 28, 2010 | 94 Comments »
I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all, my new and recurring readers, for stopping by this blog and reading my thoughts about Jane Austen and her Regency world. This week my site counter rolled past 2 million hits. I find the number simply mind-boggling, especially since over half of you are [...]
Review of The Jane Austen Pocket Bible: A Handy Reference Guide
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Regency World, tagged Holly Ivins, Jane Austen Reference Guide, The Jane Austen Pocket Bible on October 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I recently received The Jane Austen Pocket Bible by Holly Ivins and have had occasion to use it a number of times. It is a small, compact, hard cover book filled with useful information about Jane’s life, novels, characters, movie adaptations, and the like. Sprinkled throughout the chapters are facts and quotations, such as: Pocket [...]
The Allemande, A Regency Dance
Posted in Dancing, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Allemande, Regency Dance on October 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Definition of an Allemande -Music: An allemande (also spelled allemanda, almain, or alman) (from French “German”) is one of the most popular instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement. Definition of an Allemande – Dance: A 17th and 18th century court dance developed in [...]
Sherlock! A review of a ‘Study in Pink’: PBS Masterpiece Mystery!
Posted in jane austen, Movie review, tagged A Study in Pink, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, PBS Masterpiece Mystery!, Sherlock on October 25, 2010 | 28 Comments »
Watch the series. Sherlock! online starting Monday, October 25 I was never a rabid Sherlock Holmes fan. The films seemed stilted and the detective as conceived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was too old-fashioned to suit me. The only person I cared for was Dr. Watson. Sometimes I would feel a vague interest in a [...]
Jane Austen’s Novels Were EDITED by a Man
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, tagged Jane Austen and scholars, Jane Austen's writing, Kathryn Sutherland on October 24, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Even the most sheltered person will have been bombarded by these recent headlines: Jane Austen had a helping hand! Jane Austen had an editor! Jane Austen had a spell checker! Jane Austen couldn’t spell! Jane Austen would have flunked English! Jane Austen’s notes messy! Each headline that rolled off my RSS reader became increasingly more [...]
Jane and the Damned: It’s more than her wit that’s biting, by Janet Mullany: A Review
Posted in Austenesque novels, Bath, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Jane and the Damned, Janet Mullany, Mr. Darcy Vampyre, Regency vampires on October 23, 2010 | 9 Comments »
These days, centering a plot around Jane Austen as a vampire is as common as pre-packed sliced cheese, and so I approached Jane and the Damned with a jaundiced point of view. I must make a confession, however. I have been addicted to vampire novels and films about these bloodsuckers since my early 20′s, starting [...]
Could Jane Austen Have Been a Stand Up Comedian?
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Chessil House, David Lodge, Dolphin Hotel, southampton, The British Museum is Falling Down, The Lances on October 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Gentle reader, This post was written by Tony Grant of London Calling, whose association with this topic is mentioned at the bottom. I’ve been reading a book recently called, The British Museum is falling Down, by David Lodge. One of the main threads of the story is that Roman Catholic, Adam Appleby, a research student, [...]
Review: Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library and compiled by Sarah Waters
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, Austenesque novels, Chawton Cottage, Chawton House, Chawton House Library, Dancing With Mr Darcy, jane austen, Sarah Waters on October 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Dancing With Mr. Darcy is a fabulous book. A book reviewer isn’t supposed to reveal an opinion right away, but I have many reasons for liking this compilation, which began as a short story competition in 2009 sponsored by Chawton House Library to celebrate the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s arrival in the Hampshire village of [...]
Review: A Darcy Christmas: A Holiday Tribute to Jane Austen by Amanda Grange, Sharon Lathan, Carolyn Eberhart
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Popular culture, Regency Life, tagged A Darcy Christmas, Amanda Grange, Carolyn Eberhart, Sharon Lathan, Shelley de Wees on October 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
From the desk of Shelley DeWees… Gentle reader, guest writer Shelley DeWees, blog author of Uprising, writes book reviews for me. A Darcy Christmas: A Holiday Tribute to Jane Austen by Amanda Grange, Sharon Lathan, and Carolyn Eberhart is her first review for this blog. Welcome on board, Shelley. A collection of stories designed to [...]
Fashionable Shoes of the 18th and 19th Centuries and How They Were Made
Posted in Fashions, Georgian Life, Georgian London, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged 19th century shoemaker shops, Georgian era, pattens, Regency Cobblers, Regency shoemakers, Regency shoes on October 16, 2010 | 17 Comments »
He wore green trousers and a red jacket and his hat was leather with a narrow brim and a purple band all around the crown. He was sitting on a wooden stool, hammering away at a pair of boots that he was making, with the tools of his trade all laid out beside [...]
Life in the Victorian Country House by Pamela Horn, a video review
Posted in Historic Publications, History, Victorian Era, Working class, tagged London Season, Pamela Horn, Shire Books, Shire History, The Victorian Country House, Victorian servants, Victorian Society on October 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Life in the Victorian Country House is a beautifully illustrated book that is best described visually (See my video below). Filled with historical details and archived photographs of Britain’s landed families and their day-to-day lives, which depended on the work of their household servants and outdoor staff, this book considers the relationships between those who [...]
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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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