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I’ve been meaning to make this recipe since I first saw it in Jane Austen's Cookbook, especially since it was from Martha Lloyd’s...

Loving Miss Tilney is about Eleanor Tilney, a secondary character in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey , which itself is a parody of the...

In Without Undue Pride , recently widowed Elizabeth Fitzwilliam learns her husband’s life savings is gone because the country bank he...

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney. Published by...

Adventures in regency cooking continue as I tackle more recipes from the Jane Austen Cookbook. I chose this one because it sounded...

Jane Austen’s letters are filled with her observations on fashion, and this includes jewelry. In her letter to Cassandra from May 26-27,...

We all know that by whatever metric or conversion calculator you use, Austen’s Mr. Darcy is very rich. He owns a lot of land, supports...

Inns for travelers existed for centuries before the Georgian era, but it was the Royal Mail’s development in the 17th century that...

A challenge with writing historical fiction is getting the word usage right. I like putting in as many regency era details as...

Nikki Payne has a follow-up to Pride and Protest with a modern adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. I am SO glad I was asked to read an...

In January 1817, Jane Austen wrote to her niece Caroline Austen: 'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the...

Michaelmas Day is September 29, and it’s one of Britain’s four quarter days. Traditionally, quarter days were when servants were hired,...

I wrote an article for the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation about women’s education in Austen’s works. I was curious about what different...

There are plenty of clergymen in Austen's novels, but what was a "living" and how did one get one? What's the difference between a rector...

…and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present…was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that...

My son keeps a cat and when he asked me if people in Jane Austen's time kept cats as pets, I had to think about it. I know that dogs were...

Surely the idea of an evening out watching a fireworks display, possibly one set to music, is a modern notion, right? There is to be a...

After my young helper didn't care for the last regency thing we baked (Georgian Chocolate Tart) because it wasn't sweet enough, I thought...

Jane Austen always informs us about the financial status of her characters. It wasn't a taboo topic like it often is today. James Morland...

Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra are filled with irreverent humor. In December 1798, Cassandra was visiting family in...