Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Post written by Tony Grant, London Calling. Claire Tomlin’s biography of Jane Austen called Jane Austen A Life begins with: The Winter of 1775 was a hard one. On 11th November the naturalist, Gilbert White saw that the trees around his Hampshire village of Selborne had almost lost all their leaves. “Trees begin [...]
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Gilbert White, the Naturalist from Selborne, Hampshire
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency World, tagged British Wildlife, Gilbert White, Gilbert White Naturalist, Hampshire, Selborne on November 30, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Interview With Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Posted in Movie review, tagged Colin Firth, Katie Couric, The King's Speech on November 29, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Copright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Katie Couric interviewed Colin Firth in this half hour interview about The King’s Speech and King George VI’s stammer. Click on this link to view the video. Click here for Charlie Rose’s interview with Colin Firth
A Male Doctor Examines a Woman, Circa 1800
Posted in Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, personal hygiene, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged 19th century obstetrics, 19th century physician, Regency doctors, Regency Medical treatment, Regency medicine on November 27, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. In A Triple Tragedy: How Princess Charlotte’s Death in 1817 Changed Obstetrics, I discussed the two approaches to obstetrics in the early 19th century – the conservative approach, which meant no intervention, and the more radical intervention approach. I included no image of a physician examining a woman. Morbid Anatomy, one [...]
Dave Garrick’s Villa at Hampton on The Thames, Part Two
Posted in 18th Century England, Architecture, Biography, Georgian Life, jane austen, tagged Charles Dickens, Dave Garrick, Dickens's Swiss Chalet, Gads Hill, Garrick's villa, Shakespearean actor, Thames river on November 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Post written by Tony Grant, London Calling. In 1754 David Garrick became the lessee first and finally bought the house, which was to become his villa beside The Thames. It became his country retreat and the place where he and his wife entertained friends. He began to alter the original [...]
18th Century Cookery Books and the British Housewife
Posted in 18th Century England, Georgian Life, jane austen, Old English Customs, Regency Customs, Regency food, Regency Life, Regency Period, Servants, tagged Antonin Careme, Cassandra Austen, Hannah Glasse, Maggie Lane, Martha Lloyd, Mrs Cassandra Austen, Mrs. Beeton, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy on November 24, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Copryright (c) Jane Austen’s World. This post is in honor of Thanksgiving and all the cooks, feminine or masculine, who toil hard in the kitchen to feed their families on this special holiday. I am sure that the ladies there had nothing to do with the mysteries of the stew-pot or the preserving-pan” – James Edward [...]
David Garrick’s Villa at Hampton on The Thames, Part One
Posted in 18th Century England, Architecture, Biography, Georgian Life, Georgian London, jane austen, tagged Dave Garrick, Drury Lane Theatre, Garrick's villa, Thames river on November 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Copryright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Post written by Tony Grant, London Calling. For four days last week, I was working in a school in Staines near Heathrow Airport. To get there from Wimbledon I had to drive past David Garrick’s Villa and his temple to Shakespeare, at Hampton on The Thames. David Garrick was an [...]
The heaving Regency bosom, or was it? Some facts laid bare.
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Regency Customs, Regency Etiquette, Regency Life, Regency society, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Busk, Necklines in Regency gowns, Regency Fashion, regency undergarments on November 21, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Hear what a male writer has observed on the fashion of exposing the bosom! A woman, proud of her beauty, says he, may possibly be nothing but a coquet: one who makes a public display of her bosom, is something worse.” – The Mirror of Graces, by A Lady of [...]
English Dining Room, 1770-90: Thorne Miniature Room
Posted in 18th Century England, Architecture, jane austen, Neoclassicism, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged English Georgian Dining Room, Mrs. James Ward Thorne, Robert Adam, Robert Adam Interior, The Art Institute of Chicago, Thorne Miniature Rooms on November 20, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Mrs. James Ward Thorne of Chicago was no ordinary luxury-loving, self-indulgent socialite. Her love for doll houses as a child spilled over into adulthood, and she collected miniature furniture as she traveled through Europe. Her hobby led her to commission cabinetmakers and architects to recreate dozens of detailed historically accurate [...]
Urea, a 17th & 18th Century Spot Remover: Or Pee as a Cleansing Agent
Posted in 18th Century England, Georgian Life, jane austen, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged 18th century spot remover, history of soap, Regency beauty regiment, regency laundry, Urine as bleach, urine cleanser on November 19, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Copyright @ Jane Austen’s World Before that you suffer it to be washed, lay it all night in urine, the next day rub all the spots in the urine as if you were washing in water; then lay it in more urine another night and then rub it again, and so do till you find [...]
Why Petticoats and Chemises Were Worn Under Regency Gowns
Posted in Fashions, James Gilray, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency society, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, regency dress, Regency Fashion, Regency petticoats, regency undergarments, Regency underwear on November 17, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Look at this lovely Regency lady in this image from 1814. Her petticoat peeps under her fashionably short gown, whose conical shaped skirt has been given a definite shape by the undergarment. At the turn of the century, when lighter cloths were used to fashion gowns and when the dress [...]
Going to See Cassandra’s Portrait of Her Sister Jane Austen
Posted in art, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency style, tagged Cassandra Austen, Jane Austen's image, Jane Austen's portrait, London, National Portrait Gallery, The Duchess of Devonshire, Thomas Gainsborough on November 15, 2010 | 23 Comments »
Copyright (c) Jane Austen’s World. Post written by Tony Grant, London Calling. The pencil and watercolour picture Cassandra made of Jane Austen in about 1810, is in the National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is unique within the exhibits there because, although it is grouped with other 18th century [...]
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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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