Georgian Jewelry

Coral Jewelry in the Regency Era

Have you ever looked at nineteenth century portraits and noticed all of the coral jewelry? After you’ve looked through a few dozen...

Mourning Jewelry: creepy or cool?

I feature a piece of jewelry in every full-length Regency novel I write. Usually, jewelry is associated with glamor and wealth, or is a...

Paste or Real Regency Jewelry? It doesn't matter!

If you hear "paste jewelry", do you think ugly knockoff or, worse, Elmer's glue? Paste jewelry was popular among Georgian society and was...

From my personal collection

For those of you who follow me on social media, you know that I post weekly about Georgian- era jewelry. There's even a piece of jewelry...

I Just Wanted to Talk About Earrings!

I thought this blog post would be about cute earrings. I’d share more detail and pictures than I can in a #GeorgianJewelry tweet or FB...

Here's Looking at You: Lover's Eye Jewelry

Eye miniatures were a fad in Georgian England for a short time around the turn of the 19th century. They were popularized by the Prince...

Witch's heart jewelry: Scottish highlands, London society, and indigenous people of North America

Georgian jewelry was often sentimental and heart brooches were popular gifts. One style was an open heart brooch called a witch’s heart.

Georgian Posy Rings

Simple and sentimental, posy rings are a gold band with a short inscription inside the band.

Sleeve buttons and the sharp-dressed Regency man

Who doesn’t love jewelry… and a sharp-dressed man? We tend to think of Regency-era women decked out in garnets, topazes, and emeralds,...