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03 JanShadows In A Timeless Myth
On December 25, 2011, after 25 years of haphazardly writing off and on, I finally gathered up all my courage and published my historical/paranormal/fantasy/romance/horror novel, Shadows In A Timeless Myth. To celebrate the occasion you can download a musical jigsaw puzzle of the cover that features the timeless classic from medieval times, Greensleeves.
01 JanHow The World Watches The New Year Come In Circa 1800
How the World Watches the New Year Come In
The proverbial “good resolutions” of the first of January which are usually forgotten the next day, the watch services in the churches, and the tin horns in the city streets, are about the only formalities connected with the American New Year. The Pilgrim fathers took no note of the day, save in this prosaic record: “We went to work betimes”; but one Judge Sewall writes with no small pride of the blast of trumpets which was sounded under his window, on the morning of January 1st, 1697.
10 DecThe Agreeable Regency Gentleman and His Conversation
SMALL TALK AND SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF AGREEABLE. Conversation, like a shuttlecock, should not be suffered to remain with one person, but ought to pass in turn to all. But as few people think for themselves, so few people talk for themselves, and a colloquial monopoly is as common and as disagreeable as any other. Yet when we observe how much these rattles are caressed, ’tis wonderful there are so few.
06 DecBook of Love For Regency Romance Era Cynics
Cynical Thoughts on Love and Lovers For Lovers of Regency Romance Novels…And Others
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Alabaster—Kind of beautiful white marble, so much used in novels for ladies’ necks and shoulders that very little is left for ordinary consumption. Very rare now in the trade, still very common in poetry.
01 DecThe Book Lover’s Holiday Giveaway Hop
The Book Lover’s Holiday Giveaway Hop
12 NovMiscellaneous Etiquette for A Genteel Lady In The Nineteenth Century
It may be well to caution our young friends against certain bad practices, easily contracted, but sometimes difficult to relinquish. The following are things not to be done:—Biting your nails. Slipping a ring up and down your finger. Sitting cross-kneed, and, jogging your feet. Drumming on the table with your knuckles; or, still worse, tinking on a piano with your fore-finger only. Humming a tune before strangers. Singing as you go up and down stairs. Putting your arm round the neck of another young girl, or promenading the room with arms encircling waists. Holding the hand of a friend all the time she sits beside you; or kissing and fondling her before company. Sitting too closely.
21 OctRegency Romance Heroines
THE HEROINE. A SKETCH FROM SUNDRY NOVELS AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF OF A PUBLISHER CONTEMPORARY TO THE REGENCY ROMANCE ERA.
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She must be, à plaisir, tall and slender in person, or of humbler stature, but never inclining to stoutness, since the en bon point savours (at least in romance) of vulgarity. Her complexion may be light or dark, according to fancy; but her interesting pallidness may occasionally be relieved by a hectic flush, yet more interesting. She must possess small alabaster hands, coral or ruby lips, encasing a double row of pearls; a neck rivaling ivory or driven snow, (yes, even if our heroine be a brunette, for incongruity is the very essence of romance); velvet cheeks, golden or jet black hair, diamond eyes, marvelous delicate feet, shrouded at all times in bas-de-soie, and defended by the most enchanting slippers imaginable; her figure must be a model for the statuary, and at all seasons, and in every situation, arrayed in muslins or silks, which, wondrous to relate, resist the injuries of time, weather, and wear in a manner perfectly astounding. What heroine had ever an hiatus in her stocking, or a fracture in her gown of finest woof? Ye gods! what an insult to suppose her repairing such!
08 OctYoung Prince Prinny Creator of Regency Romance Era England
On the 12th August, 1762, the forty-seventh anniversary of the accession of the House of Brunswick to the English throne, all the bells in London pealed in gratulation, and announced that an heir to George III was born. Five days afterwards 
the king was pleased to pass letters patent under the great seal, creating H.R.H. the Prince of Great Britain, Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
24 SepRegency Romance Revival Celebrates Banned Books Giveaway Hop
Welcome To The Banned Books Week Giveaway!
What do Banned Books have to do with my sweet, old-fashioned Regency Romance novel,
A Very Merry Chase?
17 SepLady Emma Hamilton The Heroine That History Scorned
Lady Hamilton was unfortunate in having her history written only by her enemies—written with goose-quills. Taine says: “The so-called best society in England is notoriously corrupt and frigidly pious. It places a premium on hypocrisy, a penalty on honesty, and having no virtues of its own, it cries shrilly about virtue—as if there were but one, and that negative.” Nelson in his innocence did not know English society, otherwise he would not have commended Lady Hamilton to the gratitude of the English. It was a little like commending her to a pack of wolves. The sum of ten thousand pounds was voted to each of Nelson’s sisters, but not a penny to Lady Hamilton, “my wife before the eyes of God,” as he himself expressed it.
14 SepLady Emma Hamilton The Woman Who Saved The Naval Hero
Nelson had saved Naples from falling a prey to the French, and the city now rang with the shouts of welcome and gratitude.
11 SepLady Emma Hamilton Before She Loved Admiral Nelson
Emma Lyon was the daughter of a day-laborer. In her babyhood her home was Hawarden, “the luster of fame of which town is equally divided between a man and a woman,” once said Disraeli, with a solemn sidelong glance at William Ewart Gladstone.
