This image comes from The Library of Congress’s digital collection, and sits in John Trusler’s The honours of the table, or, Rules for behaviour during meals : with the whole art of carving, illustrated by a variety of cuts. Together with directions for going to market, and the method of distinguishing good provisions from bad; to [...]
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A Knuckle of Veal
Posted in 18th Century England, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged 18th Century Food, Cookery, food and cookery, John Trusler on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Vanity Fair, but where is Mr Darcy? – Part 1
Posted in 19th Century England, Architecture, Dandy, Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Mr.Darcy, Neoclassicism, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Beau Brummell, Brighton, Culture Concept Circle, Maria Fitzherbert, Prince Regent, Robert Adam on April 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Inquiring Readers, Carolyn McDowall of The Culture Concept Circle has graciously allowed me to recreate Part One of her Two Part series. Find Part Two of Vanity Fair, but where is Mr Darcy? at this link. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously…pride relates more to our opinion of [...]
In Honor of the Royal Wedding: Princess Charlotte’s Wedding Dress, 1816
Posted in 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Prince Leopold, Princess Charlotte, Princess Charlotte's Wedding Gown, Regency weddings, Royal weddings on April 25, 2011 | 12 Comments »
The Telegraph.co.uk features a video of five beautiful wedding dresses of the past, Queen Victoria’s and Princess Margaret’s among them, and asks the question, “How will Kate Middleton’s gown measure up to history?” Featured is Princess Charlotte’s beautiful silver wedding gown, which has not been on view for several decades and which, as the oldest [...]
A Receipt for a Pudding by Mrs. Austen
Posted in 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged Bread Pudding, Delightful Repast, Martha Lloyd, Mrs Austen's Bread Pudding, Regency food on April 23, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A Receipt for a Pudding Contributed by Mrs. Cassandra Austen (Jane’s mother) to Martha Lloyd’s collection of recipes, 1808. As this recipe attests, Jane Austen came by her talent honestly. For amusement, her family wrote riddles, charades, poems, and plays for each other. Mrs. Austen excelled at poetry to the extent that one can easily [...]
Upstairs Downstairs DVD Giveaway!!
Posted in Popular culture, jane austen, Movie review, Working class, Jane Austen's World, Upper Class, British Servants, tagged PBS Movie Adaptation, PBS Masterpiece Classic, Upstairs Downstairs 2010, DVD giveaway on April 22, 2011 | 51 Comments »
The third episode of Upstairs Downstairs will be shown this Sunday. Will you tune in? (Watch all three episodes from April 25 through May 24 at this link.) Better yet, the BBC will make the DVD available for sale Tuesday, April 26th. BBC’s Upstairs Downstairs DVD is available for purchase! Upstairs Downstairs has been brought back with [...]
Games Regency People Played: Blind Man’s Bluff
Posted in 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Blind Man's Bluff, Le Bon Genre, regency games on April 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Gentle readers, I will be on semi-hiatus for the next few weeks, as my personal and work schedules do not permit me to concentrate as much on my blogs as I would like. For the time being I will feature past posts or link to others. When I looked at these images, I was reminded [...]
Upstairs Downstairs 2010, Second Episode
Posted in Popular culture, Movie review, Jane Austen's World, 19th Century England, British Servants, tagged PBS Movie Adaptation, PBS Movie Review, PBS Masterpiece Classic, Upstairs Downstairs 2010, Upstairs Downstairs on April 18, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Oh, my, Upstairs Downstairs turned down a darker road in the second episode, which can be seen online this week until May 24th. The arrival of parlor maid, Rachel Perlmutter, changes the mood of the show from light-hearted to somber. She is a Jewish refugee from Germany who is forced to work as a maid, [...]
Jane Austen’s Ode to Mourning Clothes
Posted in 19th Century England, Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Etiquette, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged 19th century mourning fashions, Cassandra Austen, David Nokes, Jane Austen Poetry, Jane Austen's mother, Martha Lloyd, Mrs Cassandra Austen, Regency mourning fashions on April 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
According to Jane Austen chronicler and scholar, David Nokes, when Martha Lloyd’s mother died on April 16, 1805, Jane Austen showed few signs of grief or emotion over that woman’s earthly departure. Instead, Jane wrote a jaunty verse to an uncivil (and imaginary) dressmaker. I surmise that these verses were meant more to cheer Martha [...]
The Jane Austen Character I Most Identify With
Posted in Emma, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's enduring popularity, Jane Austen's World, Persuasion, Popular culture, Sense and Sensibility, tagged Harriet Smith, Jane Austen characters, Lady Russell, Mrs. Jennings, Sir John Middleton on April 14, 2011 | 31 Comments »
Gentle Readers, Laurel Anne from Austenprose and I were chatting the other day about this, that, and the other, for we are both a bit Jane Austen nutty (if you haven’t noticed.) As you continue reading, you will need to know only one thing: we are just a wee bit longer in the tooth than [...]
Mr. Edward Innes, Successful 18th c. Tradesman
Posted in 18th Century England, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency Travel, Regency World, Working class, tagged 18th century tradesman on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fans of Jane Austen’s fiction are familiar with the rising middle class, successful and enterprising tradesmen, upward mobility through marriage, the fragility of life (especially for fishermen, sailors and child-bearing women), and the difficulties of road travel. All these topics are touched upon in a short biography of Mr. Edward Innes, a successful baker and [...]
Watch Upstairs Downstairs Online
Posted in Jane Austen's World, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, tagged Eileen Atkins, Emma PBS Masterpiece Classic, Jean Marsh, Upstairs Downstairs 2010 on April 11, 2011 | 14 Comments »
For those who were so unfortunate as to miss Upstairs Downstairs, PBS has made the series available online one day after the initial airing. Click here to watch Episode One. Ten points to ponder as you contemplate the first episode of Upstairs Downstairs: 1. Rose is back. She is the bridge between the old series [...]
Regency Fashion: Trains on Dresses
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, Emma, Fashions, Jane Austen's World, Northanger Abbey, Regency style, tagged Regency Fashion, Trains on dresses on April 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
During the 18th century and much of the Regency era, trains were popular on evening and court dresses, and at times on walking gowns. The length of the train shortened as the 18th century progressed, but even shorter trains swept over lawns and grounds and sidewalks. This fashion turned out to be quite expensive, for [...]
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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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