Paris – From Terror to Restoration
WITH Cerise DeLand (aka Jo-Ann Power)Registration ends October 25, 2026!
Class Description
Breakfast at ten o’clock in the morning, supper at one o’clock in the morning: it’s perhaps the schedule you’d expect from a teenager today, not a Regency lady.
But when it comes to living a day in the life of the titled and entitled, we have to leave a huge number of our assumptions at the door.
Whether you writing romance and need to know when it would be appropriate to visit a prospective wife and her family, you write mysteries and need to know how often a lady would visit her modiste, or you’re just trying to untangle when afternoon tea was invented (much later than you think!): it’s time to talk personal servants.
If you’ve ever wondered:
- When a shooting party would go out?
- Whether a lady would breakfast in bed or downstairs with the family?
- When a gentleman would visit his club?
- The difference between a walk, promenade, and outing?
Then this is the course for you.
Over two weeks, USA Today Bestselling Author Emily E K Murdoch will take you through this informative course focusing on the complicated way that the upper crust would navigate their Regency world. This course is designed to be as accessible and intersectional as possible.
She will take you through:
- Lesson 1: Back to basics: mealtimes and seasonal shifts
- Lesson 2: A normal day in Town during the Season
- Lesson 3: A normal day in country in spring/summer
- Lesson 4: A normal day in the country
- Lesson 5: Common mistakes and their solutions
BONUS: live Q&A with Emily (questions can be submitted in advance, and the recording will be made available for those unable to attend live).
BONUS: students will gain a 25% coupon at the end of the course for those who want to take Emily’s full, ‘You Can Write More Words’, video based course.
About the Instructor
Cerise DeLand is the USA TODAY Bestselling Author who believes love brings rich rewards from a life lived with honesty, valor—and a functioning funnybone.
She reflects that in her novels, accenting that idea with her two hallmark qualities: poetic elegance and accuracy of detail.
Her work has been nearly life-long! Writing for The New York Times and Washington Post, plus many regional magazines, she yearned to write fiction. She succeeded doing that under her real name—Jo-Ann Power—in 1991. Published over the decades by Kensington, Pocket Books, St. Martin’s Press and independent presses, she is now published by DRAGONBLADE PUBLISHING. Plus her books have been monthly selections of the Doubleday Book Club and the Mystery Guild.
To research, she’s dived into the oldest texts and dustiest library shelves. She travels abroad taking good walking shoes, big notebooks, trusty pens and a camera! She visits chateaux and country homes she later loves to people with her own imaginary characters.
And at home every day? She cooks. (Every night.) Never dusts. (That can be a problem.) She goes swimming or pumps iron once a week and tries (desperately) to grow vegetables in her arid backyard in south Texas!
Visit the instructor’s website at https://www.cerisedeland.com and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cerise.deland/ and her blog at https://cerisedeland.blogspot.com/.
Class Delivery
Class Format
2-WEEK COURSE
Written Lectures: 5 lectures, available as a downloadable PDF
Video Lectures: there will be a Bonus Q&A session at the end of the course
Pictures: Some within the lessons
Audio Files: none
Class Fees
$20 for RFW members
$35 for non-members
Registration ends October 25, 2026!
Scholarships are available for members
