Regency Reader

Tracy MacNish: Stealing Midnight

By Anne | March 20, 2018 - 8:00 am |April 9, 2018 2-3 Flames, Book Review, Tracy MacNish

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Set in the English countryside, this exquisite new Regency novel by MacNish reveals how one woman’s courage wins her the love she had never dreamed Continue →

Jean Wilde: A Gentleman’s Bidding

By Anne | February 20, 2018 - 12:11 pm |March 20, 2018 2-3 Flames, Jean Wilde, New on the Shelves

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Miss Emily Price is in desperate need of funds. With her family estate mortgaged and her young brother not yet of age, it falls to Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Valentine’s and Puzzle Purses

By Anne | February 14, 2018 - 10:35 am |February 20, 2018 Regency Culture and Society

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Puzzle purses were one way lovers could exchange “Valentines” as early as the 1700s. Constructed from paper folded in intricate origami style, each panel would Continue →

Regency Customs: A Receipt for Courtship

By Anne | January 18, 2018 - 8:15 am |January 30, 2018 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs

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This 1805 caricature of courtship gives a simple recipe for love and marriage (by Lurie & Whittle of Fleet Street): Two or three dears, and Continue →