In 1993 Colin Firth starred opposite Jemma Redgrave (Lady Betram, Mansfield Park) in Chatsky, in which the hero of the play tells the truth and is mistaken for a lunatic. It is amazing to see the images from that play, for, since it is set during Regency times, Colin in full costume could easily be [...]
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Colin Firth: Before He Was Darcy
Posted in Jane Austen's World, Mr.Darcy, Popular culture, tagged Chatsky, Colin Firth, Gemma Redgrave, Plays set in the Regency era on July 31, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Marginalia: In the 18th & 19th centuries it was the custom to write in the margins of books
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, tagged Marginalia, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson on July 29, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Most of us have written in the margins of books, especially in our own textbooks when cramming for an exam or writing a paper, but how many of us write notes in expensive hardcovers that we treasure? These days writing inside books is heavily discouraged and frowned upon, but it was once a common practice, [...]
Breakfast in the Regency Era and their Definition of Morning
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged 18th century breakfast, Regency food, regency meal on July 27, 2011 | 29 Comments »
I am at a conference for the rest of the week. Workshops begin at 8:30 AM. Working backwards, this means I must be up by 5 AM to get washed and dressed, eat breakfast, drive to the training site, set up the workshop room, and be ready to greet participants (without a bleary eye) by [...]
Advertising in the Georgian Era
Posted in Georgian Life, Georgian London, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency society, Regency World, tagged Advertising in the 18th century on July 24, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Today almost everywhere we turn we are inundated with ads over television and radio, in film theatres, on billboards and our computers, and magazines and store fronts. We simply cannot escape the messages put out by individuals and businesses trying to get us to buy their products and services. The situation was the same in [...]
Keeping Cool 200 Years Ago
Posted in 19th Century England, Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Keeping cool 200 years ago, Regency Fans, Regency ice cream on July 22, 2011 | 10 Comments »
A heatwave has us hiding inside air-conditioned rooms this week. As I gazed at a hideously yellow sky and glowering orange sun last evening, I wondered how people survived 100 degree plus days 200 years ago? They mostly suffered, I imagine! But there were ways they could deal with extreme heat. Ceilings were higher, so [...]
Street Cries of London
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency London, Regency World, tagged Street cries of London, Thomas Rowlandson on July 20, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I sat on an outdoor balcony during lunch yesterday, editing some work and eating a salad, and was struck by the sounds of the city – the traffic whizzing by, the rattling chain of an old bicycle, the siren of a distant firetruck, the buzz of a lawn mower, the chirps and tweets of birds, [...]
A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz: A Review by Tony Grant
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, tagged A Jane Austen Education, Tony Grant, William Deresiewicz on July 18, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Gentle readers, strap on your seat belts. Tony Grant from London Calling sent in his review of “A Jane Austen Education: How six novels taught me about love, friendship and the things that really matter“by William Deresiewicz. Let’s just say this is a review by a bloke about a bloke’s book. There will be no [...]
Celebrating Jane Austen’s Life with a Book Giveaway of In the Garden With Jane Austen
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency gardens, tagged book giveaway, In the garden with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson on July 15, 2011 | 122 Comments »
Instead of commemorating Jane Austen’s death at 41 on July 18, 1817, I would like to celebrate her life with a book giveaway of In the Garden With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson. It is a slim hard-back book filled with color photographs. In it Kim discusses the gardens that Jane Austen would have known [...]
To conceive or not to conceive: that is the Regency question
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, tagged 19th century medicine, Casanova, History of Condoms, History of Contraceptives, Regency contraceptives, Regency families, Regency medicine on July 13, 2011 | 22 Comments »
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that after a bride and groom consummate the marriage the pitter patter of little feet will surely follow (and follow and follow and follow). Such was the case during Jane Austen’s day. Her mother bore eight children and luckily survived her ordeals. The wives of Jane’s brothers Edward and Frank [...]
Review of The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer
Posted in 19th Century England, Book review, Georgette Heyer, Georgian London, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Georgette Heyer book review, Regency romance mystery, Review of The Quiet Gentleman, The Quiet Gentleman on July 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »
The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer starts out anything but quietly. Gervase Frant, 7th Earl of St. Erth, had the bad judgment to survive the Battle of Waterloo by escaping a violent death. His half-brother, Martin, and step mama had half counted/half hoped on his not attaining the Earldom, for St. Erth had served in [...]
Tea with Jane Austen: Review of a book by Kim Wilson
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Drink, Regency food, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged Kim Wilson, Tea in the Regency era, Tea With Jane Austen on July 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
If I had only read Kim Wilson’s Tea with Jane Austen many years ago, I would have saved myself a lot of trouble. Yes, gentle readers, I spent hours researching the history of tea and how and when people in the Regency era served it only to find that most of the information had already [...]
Jane Austen Gifts from Julie
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, tagged At Home With the Georgians, austenonly, Hugh Thompson, Julie Wakefield on July 7, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Gentle readers, as many of you know, I have been laid up with a broken foot and have only recently begun to follow a full schedule again. So many friends and readers have wished me well, making me feel like a million dollars. Julie Wakefield from the fabulous blog Austenonly sent me a package from [...]
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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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