by Diane Morris | Mar 21, 2018 | Medicine, Regency Research
This year’s flu epidemic has been extremely challenging, with a high number of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths. The influenza or flu is caused by a virus, a teeny, tiny infectious agent smaller than a bacterium, as can be seen in the illustration below....
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 | Aug 16, 2017 | Marriage, Regency Research
For seven or eight years I have been downloading and reading books published during the Regency era—by which I mean the “long” Regency era running from about 1780 (before the French Revolution) to 1830 (the year King George IV died). Books published...
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 | Feb 23, 2017 | Regency Research, surgeons & surgery
In pursuit of background material on a character in my third Regency novel, which is in production, I recently found myself browsing nearly every page in Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide. The full title of this weighty tome is typical of many Regency-era...
by Diane Morris | Oct 20, 2016 | Medicine, Regency Research, surgeons & surgery
Like Jane Austen, I love novels. In recent weeks I’ve read Jane and The Wandering Eye (the third book in Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen mystery series); A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman; We Were Liars by e. lockhart; Warleggan, book 4 in Winston...
