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Regency Women of Character: Women at Waterloo

By Anne | January 19, 2012 - 3:23 pm |August 12, 2015 Regency Women of Character

During a lull in fighting at Waterloo in 1815, British solidiers found the bodies of two women. “I saw one of them,” wrote Captain Henry Continue →

Georgette Heyer: The Talisman Ring

By Anne | November 1, 2011 - 8:13 pm |September 23, 2015 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Georgette Heyer

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Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another. Yet it is Lord Lavenham’s dying wish. Continue →

Georgette Heyer: Friday’s Child

By anneglover | September 25, 2011 - 6:46 pm |September 25, 2011 0-1 Flames, Georgette Heyer

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When the incomparable Miss Milbourne spurns the impetuous Lord Sherington’s marriage proposal (she laughs at him-laughs!) he vows to marry the next female he encounters, Continue →

Georgette Heyer: Faro’s Daughter

By Anne | September 3, 2011 - 12:03 pm |August 12, 2015 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Georgette Heyer

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The beautiful but poor Deborah Grantham presides over her aunt’s gaming house in Regency London. Here she meets Max Ravenscar who is determined to prevent Continue →