A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: In great agitation, she took a sheet of foolscap from the desk drawer. Placing it on the blotter, she dipped her sharpened quill into the inkwell and began to write furiously … Or, something like that. How many characters in how many Regency romances have written or received a…
New Release Books – March/ April 2012. As promised, here are some more of the New Release Books from our wonderful Beau Monde members. Enjoy more great reading!
ASSEMBLY ROOM – Round-up of Regency and historical posts by Angelyn Schmid
The Proliferation of Newspapers in Regency England By Cheryl Bolen
Despite heavy taxation, high cost, and government censorship that included prosecution for libel, newspapers proliferated during the Regency.
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: The English wake during the Regency had nothing to do with the ceremony which many people in westernized nations today observe in honor and memory of someone recently departed. In fact, wakes in England by the early nineteenth century were considered by many such profane and unruly events that…
Horse racing can be an exciting aspect of a Regency romance novel. In today’s article, Cheryl Bolen gives us a brief overview of the origins of the sport and some historical details about some of the most prominent racing venues in England.
Railways in the Regency era? Linda Banche explains how Regency Railways did exist. We think of the railroad as a Victorian invention, but railroads as we know them today got their start during the Regency.
Elena Greene is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author. Elena grew up reading her mother’s Georgette Heyer novels, but it wasn’t until she went on an international assignment to the United Kingdom that she was inspired to start writing her own.
Laughing Gas at Landsdowne House by Angelyn Schmid. Sir Humphry Davy (1778 – 1829) was a pioneer in chemistry, having discovered important earth elements and inventing the Davy lamp used by miners to detect dangerous gases.
Grace Kone (Blair Bancroft) is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author. I began writing (as Blair Bancroft) later than most because my mother was the successful author of children’s books, and it never occurred to me we could have two writers in the same family.
