by Diane Morris | Sep 22, 2016 | Regency Research, Science
Lately I’ve been thinking about the weather. For one thing, it’s hot as blue blazes here in East Tennessee. The cicada chirping has ceased, thus bringing an end to the dog days of summer, but it remains hot and dry, despite the fact that today is the first...
by Diane Morris | Sep 8, 2016 | Life & Times, Regency Research
Recently I happened to be perusing the 1816 volume of The Gentleman’s Magazine. I was photocopying the meteorological tables, beginning with March, so that I would have a sense of the weather conditions for the months in which several characters in my new novel...
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...
by Diane Morris | Nov 19, 2015 | Regency Research
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, my favorite holiday of the year. I love the turkey dressing, cranberry sauce and desserts; I love the colorful Fall place settings and flowers; I love having fun with family. I have much to be thankful for. In my business I am...
by Diane Morris | Oct 8, 2015 | Life & Times, Regency Gentleman, Regency Research
The first lesson I learned researching the Regency era is that it’s hard to get the history right. The second lesson learned is this: if I were a man living in Jane Austen’s day, I would be considered illiterate. This point is driven home whenever I read a popular...
by Diane Morris | Aug 20, 2015 | Life & Times, Regency Research
I began researching the Regency era in earnest on August 1, 2009. I had written a story board outlining the plot for Rosings Park, my novel based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. (I later discarded the story board because my protagonist, Anne de Bourgh, refused...
