Gentle Readers: To celebrate the 3 millionth visitor to this blog, I will be giving away Tea With Jane Austen, a delightful and informative book by Kim Wilson. Deadline: The contest will end the moment my blog meter records 3 million or July 4th, whichever comes first! Contest Closed! Congratulations, Sherry, and thank you ALL [...]
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Book Give Away: Tea With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Drink, Regency Etiquette, Regency food, Regency World, tagged book giveaway, Kim Wilson, Tea With Jane Austen on June 30, 2011 | 86 Comments »
The impress service: press gangs and the Royal Navy
Posted in 18th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Old English Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged impress service, Napoleonic Wars, Press gangs, Regency military traditions, Royal Navy on June 29, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Imagine that your beloved husband or son suddenly disappeared after meeting friends at a neighborhood bar, and that you would not know for months what had happened to them. You fear that he has been taken by a pressgang. Such was the case in Jane Austen’s time, when Great Britain fought long wars over land [...]
Parisian Milliner’s Advice in 1801 to a Visiting Lady: Regency Fashion
Posted in 18th Century England, 18th Century France, 19th Century England, Fashions, Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Directoire fashion, Empire gowns, Incroyables, Merveilleuses, Millenery shops, Regency Fashion on June 26, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Early milliner shops were like our department stores, selling all manner of fashionable items. The image of a milliner shop in Paris shows the costumes we have come to associate with the era of Marie Antoinette. After the French Revolution, fashions changes drastically, for the French citizenry did not want to be reminded of the [...]
The Apothecary’s Prayer
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged apothecary, Regency medicine on June 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Caricatures from the late 18th- early 19th century always pique my interest. In this instance, Rowlandson’s apothecary (1801) is praying deeply. But what for? Skills to heal more efficiently and better, or for a slew of customers whose illnesses will help fill his coffers with lucre? Knowing Rowlandson’s outrageous penchant for irony, I am willing [...]
Studies of Georgian physiognomies (facial features) in relation to character
Posted in 19th Century England, art, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Art, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, tagged British caricature, Isaac Cruikshank, Norman Rockwell, Physiognomy on June 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I came across this print by Isaak Cruikshank and was instantly captivated. Instead sketching studies of rich and influential people, Cruikshank used the images of ordinary folks. The study of physiognomy goes back a long time, but as early as the 18th century, it was regarded as a dangerous “science.” Physiognomy was regarded by those [...]
Jane Austen in Southampton
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Itchen Ferry, Jane Austen in Southampton, southampton, The Dolphin Hotel, Tony Grant on June 15, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Gentle readers, Tony Grant kindly rewrote an article that he had originally written for JASA (Jane Austen Society of Australia), adding more images and new information. Tony has also resurrected his blog, London Calling (thank you, Tony). Jane Austen lived in Southampton between 1806 and 1809. She stayed in a rented house in Castle Square. In [...]
Hannah Glasse’s Connection to the Hamburger
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency food, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency society, tagged Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy on June 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Gentle readers, Summer means long, lazy afternoons lounging in the yard or by the pool side, grilling meats like hamburgers, sausages, and hot dogs. The hamburger has had a long tradition. In 1802, the Oxford English Dictionary defined Hamburg steak as salt beef. It had little resemblance to the hamburger we know today. It was a hard [...]
Execution Broadsides in the Early 19th Century
Posted in 19th Century England, Crime, Georgian London, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency Period, Regency society, Regency World, tagged Regency crime on June 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Vendors set up their carts and booths hours before execution time, doing a roaring trade selling food, drink, souvenirs, even pornographic material, to a frenzied crowd. Minstrels and jugglers entertained the crowd. With the advent of cheap printing in the 16th and 17th centuries, touts created lurid “broadsheets” detailing the supposed history and scandalous crimes [...]
Soane’s Regency London: Images from the Sir John Soane’s Museum
Posted in 19th Century England, Architecture, Jane Austen's World, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Sir John Soane, Sir John Soane's Museum on June 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Sir John Soanes’s architectural drawings, including his designs for the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery, have been made available online by the Sir John Soane’s Museum. Included is the design for his family tomb in St Pancras Gardens, which inspired Gilbert Scott’s prototype for the red telephone box. Tim Knox, Director of Sir [...]
A Day Out in Brighton
Posted in Architecture, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World on June 6, 2011 | 11 Comments »
By Tony Grant. All rights reserved Jane Austen knew Brighton. In Pride and Prejudice it is the place Lydia Bennett rushes off to, enamoured of the regimental officers who had inhabited Meryton for a while before being moved to Brighton, especially Wickham. It is the place she elopes with Wickham from. It could be interpreted that Brighton is [...]
Dealing With a Physical Disability, Georgian Style
Posted in Bath, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, tagged Bone Setters, Comforts of Bath, Crutches, Mrs. Mapp, Regency medicine, Thomas Rowlandson, Wheel chairs on June 2, 2011 | 29 Comments »
Almost everyone who visits my blog, Twitter account, and Facebook page knows I’ve broken my foot in two inconvenient places. Even with modern medical advances the most pleasant way to describe my experience is that it’s been a … pain. Literally and figuratively. This lover of walking 3-4 times a day with her dog has [...]
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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.
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