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Regency Women of Character: Sarah Wilkinson

By Anne | June 22, 2021 - 6:10 am |June 30, 2021 Regency Women of Character

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A writer and entrepreneur, Sarah Wilkinson (1779-1831) teetered between middle class and penury for most of her life. Arguably one of the most prolific writers Continue →

Victoria Holt: The India Fan

By Anne | February 10, 2019 - 7:31 am |February 22, 2019 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Victoria Holt

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Drusilla Delaney, the daughter of an impoverished minister, becomes fascinated with the wealthy Framling family—especially with the son and daughter, the mysterious Fabian, and the Continue →

Erica Ridley: Too Sinful to Deny

By Anne | September 12, 2013 - 10:04 am |October 5, 2016 Book Review, Erica Ridley

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Forever on a hunt for gothic farce ala Northanger Abbey, I picked up a digital copy of Erica Ridley’s Too Sinful to Deny. One look Continue →

Jane Austen’s Contemporaries

By Anne | July 11, 2011 - 10:30 pm |July 11, 2011 Regency Literature

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Janeites and hist-ro fans undoubtedly have wished at least once (if not many, many times) that there were more Austens to read and absorb, to Continue →