Ratafia Cakes in 2022
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...
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Heather Moll's Blog
- Jul 17
Regency Income: 500 versus 10,000 per year
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...
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- Feb 27
Jane's "nidgetty" cap
Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra are filled with irreverent humor. In December 1798, Cassandra was visiting family in...
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- Aug 29, 2021
What does precedence even mean?
Precedence might seem strange to us in the twenty-first century, especially for those of us in places without hereditary titles. But the...
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- Jul 11, 2021
Favorite Opening Lines
All the writing advice out there discuss the importance of that opening line—that hook—that gets your potential reader to sit down, pay...
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- Apr 18, 2021
Regency Mac and Cheese
In Nine Ladies, our regency time traveler to 2011 has to navigate a strange world with strange customs, and one of them is grocery...
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- Mar 21, 2021
Neatness Counts in Crossed Letters
It’s rare to get “real” mail. Something handwritten that arrives in the mailbox. Not junk, not a bill, but words put to paper for my eyes...
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- Feb 13, 2021
So, I can't sew
I can reattach a button near enough to the right place so it gets into a buttonhole. I only got as far as cross-stitch bookmarks as a...
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- Jan 24, 2021
Jane Austen gifts
How many of you have a "special interest"? A hobby, a collection, a sport, a "thing" that you're really in to? It's no surprise that Jane...
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- Jan 3, 2021
Regency Ice Skating
While Jane Austen’s brother Frank was eager to skate, it seems that the women in his
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- Dec 13, 2020
Like Pulling Teeth
My son is ten and his baby teeth were slow to come in… and they’re slow to fall out. He’s only had a few fall out on their own, even...
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- Nov 14, 2020
Isolated Spinster or In-Touch Citizen?
Some think that Jane Austen was a culturally and politically myopic person because her novels are seemingly oblivious to those matters....
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- Oct 10, 2020
Music and the Austen Couple
In the Georgian era, female accomplishments were indispensable assets on the marriage market. Like Miss Bingley describes, the ability to...
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- Sep 18, 2020
Twining, Tea, and Jane Austen
Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m a tea drinker. Some might unfairly say tea snob, but I do like my tea, which is kept in...
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- Aug 21, 2020
Wedgwood, Austen, and Elegance
I love dishes. I would use the good china and crystal every night. My favorite is a small Edwardian tea set that belonged to my maternal
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