by Diane Morris | Dec 16, 2017 | Jane Austen, Regency Research
Today, December 16th, is Jane Austen’s birthday, and I am thinking of books … not Austen’s books, much as I enjoy them, but other books, the ones I download for free from the internet and store on my computer in a folder labeled “BOOKS” (yes, a...
by Diane Morris | Jul 18, 2017 | Jane Austen, Regency Research
Today, July 18, 2017, is the 200-year anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. Would she have been astonished by the popularity of her novels and the events honoring her passing? Would she utter a pithy comment to a Tennessee blogger writing about her use of adverbs...
by Diane Morris | Jan 12, 2017 | Flaxseed, Jane Austen
Regarding a stricture of the rectum: “In its advanced stage I know of none equal to the injection of cold drawn linseed oil …”1 — Thomas Copeland, surgeon (1781-1855) In a previous post I reviewed Dr. Andrew Duncan’s 1803 description of the chemical...
by Diane Morris | Jun 9, 2016 | Jane Austen
Whit Stillman’s movie based on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan came to town on Friday, May 27th. Austen is believed to have written the novella in the early 1790s, when she was 15 to 20 years old. I have not read either of Austen’s novellas — Love...
by Diane Morris | May 12, 2016 | Jane Austen, Medicine
Medicine and medical therapy during the Regency era fascinate me. Perhaps that isn’t surprising, considering that I have worked with physicians and physician-researchers throughout my career. Unlike Jane Austen and everyone else of her era, however, I have...
by Diane Morris | Apr 28, 2016 | Jane Austen, Regency Research
My husband, Peter, took this photo of llamas when he approached the top of Mount LeConte after hiking up the Trillium Gap trail. (On the Great Smoky Mountains National Park map, Mount LeConte can be found pretty much due north of the word...