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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- Jun 26
Someone call an apothecary
When you read a regency and someone falls ill and calls for an apothecary, do you wonder, “Why don’t they call a real doctor?” We modern...
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- Jun 12
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...
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- May 22
Single women in Georgian England
Elizabeth Elliot from Persuasion “had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions: she was...
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- May 15
Carriage and Horse Accidents in An Affectionate Heart
As delightful as it might sound to us to ride in an open carriage, driving and riding in Georgian England wasn’t as carefree as you might...
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- Apr 24
What's a turnpike road?
In An Affectionate Heart, Elizabeth speaks to Darcy for the first time at the pedestrian path next to a tollgate, and later in the book a...
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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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- Dec 12, 2021
A Regency Masquerade
What do The Sylph (1778) by the Duchess of Devonshire, Cecilia (1782) by Fanny Burney, and Belinda (1801) by Maria Edgeworth have in...
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- Nov 14, 2021
What are "Tea Things"?
Drinking tea, making tea, or using "tea-things" are often mentioned in Austen. Elizabeth Bennet hopes that after the tea things are...
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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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- Jun 13, 2021
Paste or Real? 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...
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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 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 21, 2020
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...
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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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