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Drinking tea, making tea, or using "tea-things" are often mentioned in Austen. Elizabeth Bennet hopes that after the tea things are...

Precedence might seem strange to us in the twenty-first century, especially for those of us in places without hereditary titles. But the...

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

In Nine Ladies, our regency time traveler to 2011 has to navigate a strange world with strange customs, and one of them is grocery...

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...

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...

While Jane Austen’s brother Frank was eager to skate, it seems that the women in his

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...

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...

Some think that Jane Austen was a culturally and politically myopic person because her novels are seemingly oblivious to those matters....

In the Georgian era, female accomplishments were indispensable assets on the marriage market. Like Miss Bingley describes, the ability to...

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...

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

Have you read a JAFF where a character lays out 5 shillings to buy a yard of muslin, or pays off £1,000 in gambling debts, or tips a servant

What does Hamilton have to do with a Jane Austen variation? How many of you watched Hamilton on Disney+ ?

I’m often asked how much research I do for my books. The answer falls somewhere between a lot and too much! I have strong opinions about...

During the pandemic, we were all at home more than most of us were used to. Some of us enjoyed reconnecting with family, having extra...

In His Choice of a Wife Darcy is allowing his sister to learn to waltz from a dancing master, and this has some romantic consequences for...