The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After: A Review Is happiness in marriage entirely a matter of chance? Elizabeth Kantor takes on the question...
Mrs. Hurst Dancing a review by author Cari Hislop
Why We Read Jane Austen A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Review By Arti of Ripple Effects
Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne For those who enjoy the Regency period and life of George IV, this is one of the most perfect books to introduce you into the famous lives of the period. Mary Robinson's was a brief, intense and fascinating life which pushed the established mores ...
Medically Speaking The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine
by Roy Porter
I decided, given the variation in literature available, to read and review three books on medicine by Roy Porter at once. They are this one, The Cambridge Illustrated History: Medicine, as w...
A Jane Austen Education Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen A review of Sarah Jane Downing's history of fashion
by Vic Sanborn
Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine’s Guide to Life and Love When we reviewed Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating a while back, we remarked that reading the advice contained therein was like receiving a letter full of good advice from Aunt Jane. In Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine’s Guide to Life and Love, Patr...
Jane Austen’s Sewing Box Jane Austen’s Sewing Box: Craft Projects & Stories from Jane Austen’s Novels
by Jennifer Forest
This is a lovely, sumptuous book. When it first arrived, I did a quick skim – it is filled with photographs, decorated papers, fashion plates, q...
In the Garden with Jane Austen In the Garden with Jane Austen
by Kim Wilson
“Our Garden is putting in order, by a Man who bears a remarkably good character, has a very fine complexion & asks something less than the first. The shrubs which border the gravel walk he s...
Two Guys Read Jane Austen Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects
Claire Tomalin and Carol Shields on Jane Austen's Life Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects
The Girl From Botany Bay The Girl from Botany Bay
by Carolly Erickson
Mary Broad had a brief moment of celebrity, and this is probably one of the only reasons we know so much about the life and times of not just Broad, but others like her. Women who lived a hand to mouth...
The Art of Regency War British Military Spectacle : From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea
By Scott Hughs Myerly
It was only after I had read some way into this book that I realised that it must have been some kind of thesis. When did people start writing them so w...
101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen We must confess that we expected something rather different from 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen. We expected something more like a list of overlooked scenes from the novel, or explanations of references to commonplace items or ideas fr...
The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
Seldom have I so anticipated the publication of a book and The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World certainly does not disappoint. Part tongue in cheek “How To” guide for the young Regency gentleman or woman, part hist...
The Worlds of Georgette Heyer Georgette Heyer's Regency World
by Jennifer Kloester
As the patroness of two online discussion lists, Janeites, for Jane Austen Fans, and the Georgette Heyer discussion list, I am just the audience who Kloester's is aiming at with this book, and I...
Two Views of Napoleon Napoleon's Russian Campaign
by Count Phillipe-Paul de Segur
This is a raw account of Napoleon's Russian 1812 Russian Campaign from not just an eye witness, but a French officer and aide to Napoleon. Phillipe-Paul de Segur was rarely more than a few...
Capt Gronow and Sir Harry Smith Write their Memoirs Captain Gronow:
His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life, 1810-60
By Christopher Hibbit
This is a very difficult book to review as I liked it a lot, but I still have a number of reservations about it - mostly about its editing.
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Kings and Princes: Lives of the Georgian Royalty George III: A Personal History
by Christopher Hibbert
I did enjoy this book, Hibbert has a way of including small details of life within the larger context of of his subject which gives wonderful insight into both his subjects and the time he is w...
Passion and Principle & The Regency Underworld Passion and Principle:
The Loves and Lives of Regency Women
by Jane Aiken Hodge
There were three issues at stake when I tried to figure out just how I would rate this book excellent book by Hodge. The first is its accuracy, the second its subject ...
Jane Austen's Letters and The Cambridge Companion The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
By Edward Copeland & Juliet McMaster
I have to admit from the outset here, that I am a confirmed Janeite, I have an Austen discussion list, and I have read Austen's novels over and over again. So that may we...
What the Butler Saw & High Society in the Regency What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
by E. S. Turner
A book which goes on a special shelf in my library
P.G. Wodehouse
This is a lively foray into a world where a gentleman with £2,000 a year was betraying his ...
Scholarly looks at Trafalgar and Waterloo Trafalgar : The Biography of a Battle
by Roy Adkins
Truly a biography of this battle - a pivotal event in European history.
This seems to be the same book as the American Published one entitled "Trafalgar, a battle which changed the world" - whic...
To The Great House, Accordingly, They Went... Althorp: The Story of an English House
Charles Spencer
I have to admit I probably would have only been vaguely interested in The Story of Althorp had it not been for the Diana, Princess of Wales Factor. I still harbour some curiosity about her chi...
Film Scripts for the Austen Movies When the final credits roll on an Austen film, whether you’ve loved it or not, it’s often fun to find out more. What were relationships like on and off the set? Where did they film these great houses? Who designed the costumes? Was the final produc...
Tea With Jane Austen Tea With Jane Austen
By Kim Wilson
The title of Tea With Jane Austen conjures up the most delightful fantasy: sitting comfortably by the fire in the breakfast parlor at Chawton Cottage as Jane Austen pours one a cup of steaming, fragrant tea and ...
Effusions of Fancy Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New Effusions of Fancy
Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New
by Jane Odiwe
I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed. She was the sun of my life, the gild...
A History of the Englishman's Food and An Interview with Wellington's Cook. Your Most Obedient Servant: Cook to the Duke of Wellington
by James Thornton
What an odd little book! A few years ago this written interview between Lord Frederick Fitzclarence and a cook called James Thornton was uncovered on a dusty shelf. Thorn...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Controversial Regency Authors The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Claire Tomalin
Mary Wollstonecraft was an excessively unsympathetic character - she was a user (in modern parlance anyway), she manipulated, she was deliberately obstructive and astonishingly naive and y...
Defending Hertfordshire Against the French: Life in Wellington's Army and Napoleon's Prisons The Armies of Wellington
by Philip J. Haythornthwaite
For most people this is definitely a reference book to be pulled out as necessary. Haythornthwaite has always shown himself to a be a master of British Army history and here he is in his eleme...
Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman
What better material can you start with than the most well-known menage a trois in English history - involving one of the wealthiest men of his age, and Duke at that, his wife the most popular a...
Soldiers of Fortune: First Hand Accounts of Regency Battles A Dorset Soldier: The Autobiography of Sgt. Williams Lawrence 1790-1869
by Eileen Hathaway (Editor), William Lawrence
An excellent book for collectors of Peninsular War accounts, and especially those interest in light Regiments for this book follow...
Fashions of the Regency Period Jane Austen Fashion
by Penelope Byrde
This delightful book is the work of Bath’s Costume Museum Curator, Penelope Byrd. It takes an in-depth look at fashions of the period, care of clothes, and needlework, taking references from Jane Austen’s nov...
The Jane Austen Cookbooks Jane Austen and Food
by Maggie Lane
What was the significance of the pyramid of fruit which confronted Elizabeth Bennet at Pemberley? Or of the cold beef eaten by Willoughby on his journey of repentance to see Marianne? Why is it so appropriate th...
Women's Lives in Georgian England The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
Written by Amanda Vickery
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively book, based on letters, diaries, and account books of over one hundred middle...
Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England With a bright holiday cover featuring Polly Maberly (Kitty Bennet) of Pride and Prejudice fame, Jane Austen's Christmas promises to be a delightful read. However, like Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, this book is not so much about or by Jane Austen as i...
Art Imitating Life Did Jane Austen's personal life impact her novels?
By Arti of Ripple Effects
The Faces of Jane A comparison of two Jane Austen biographies
A Time for War The Duke of Wellington, plus The Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792-1815
The Janeites A new look at some of Austen's staunchest supporters.
The Mirror of Graces By A Lady of Distinction, 1811
