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- [Fanny Burney and the Seven Men in Black](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/fanny-burney-and-the-seven-men-in-black/) - Last Friday, September 30, 2016, was the 205th anniversary of Fanny Burney’s mastectomy—without anesthesia. Here’s her story. “Yet—when the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast—cutting through veins—arteries—flesh—nerves—I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries. I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision …”1 Writing from Paris to
- [Body-Snatchers Dug Up the Dead](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/body-snatchers-dug-up-the-dead/) - A previous blog described some of the lessons I learned researching and writing about body-snatchers (1). In Jane Austen's day (particularly the early 1800s), body-snatchers dug up the dead at night and delivered the fresh cadavers to the surgeons at London's anatomy and medical schools. These resurrection men, as they were sometimes called (2, 3), and the
- [Four Things I Learned Writing a Trilogy](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/four-things-i-learned-writing-a-trilogy/) - My trilogy is finished. The series--titled Surgeon's Duty--is set in Regency England (specifically 1816 and 1817) and follows a hospital surgeon and several body-snatchers (a.k.a. resurrection men). The body-snatchers dig up newly buried bodies and sell them to the hospital surgeons for dissecting. Book 1--titled Ravaging the Dead--is nearly ready to be published. Here are
- [Recipes for Brewing Flaxseed Tea](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/recipes-for-brewing-flaxseed-tea/) - Are you wondering how to brew flaxseed tea? Then you've come to the right place. The impetus for this blog was a query posted by a reader who brewed some flaxseed tea and found it too goopy to stir. Her request for an explanation of why her flaxseed tea was so gummy led me to
- [A Bit of Regency Dash for My Blog](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/a-bit-of-regency-dash-for-my-blog/) - When I first started blogging some five years ago I happened to buy Vic Gatrell's book City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London at a local discount bookstore.1 I have never been the same since. Gatrell introduced me to the world of the Regency-era satirical caricacturist. As I began using their works in my blogs, my fascination
- [Regency Women Who Inherited Real Property (Part 2)](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/regency-women-who-inherited-real-property-part-2/) - My previous blog provided short biographies of three women who inherited real property—by which I mean land, houses, farm buildings, and the like: Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth Doughty, and Mrs. Eleanor Frances Dixie Pochin. Here are short biographies of three other women who inherited real property: Mrs. Catherine Knight, Mrs. Amelia Heber, and and Laura Pulteney,
- [Some Regency Women Owned Property (Part 1)](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/some-regency-women-owned-property-part-1/) - In 2014, when I started this blog, I had published my first novel, Rosings Park—a story about Anne de Bourgh. Miss de Bourgh, you may know, is a character in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Her claim to fame is that she was expected to marry her cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy, but didn't. (He married Elizabeth Bennet.)
- [The Bluestocking Story: Facts and Fogs](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/the-bluestocking-story-facts-and-fogs/) - Nearly three years ago (in October of 2015, to be precise) I posted a blog titled "I Am Illiterate by Regency Standards." Even though I consider myself reasonably well educated, I have not been educated according to the standards of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Unlike a Regency gentleman, I cannot read or write
- [Maryville Book Club DiVAs Read Rosings Park](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/maryville-book-club-divas-read-rosings-park/) - Last Sunday afternoon I spent a delightful hour as the guest of the Maryville Book Club DiVAs. The ladies had read my novel Rosings Park and invited me to meet with them after their discussion to answer questions. I had such fun! Below is a photo from the event. I can be seen wearing my
- [The Regency World's View of Viruses](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/the-regency-worlds-view-of-viruses/) - 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. The word "virus" is derived from the Latin word vīrus, which means poison;
- [Fitzwilliam Darcy, Esquire?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/fitzwilliam-darcy-esquire/) - Of late I have been wondering about Esquires. What, precisely, is an Esquire? Might Fitzwilliam Darcy, he of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice fame, be such a man? We can be certain that Darcy isn't a Peer, since no one addresses him either as "Your Grace" (signaling his status as a Duke) or as "Lord"
- [On Jane Austen's Birthday: It's All About Books](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/on-jane-austens-birthday-its-all-about-books/) - 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 clever title in capital letters). These are the books
- [Surgeon Sentenced for Manslaughter in a Midwifery Case](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/surgeon-sentenced-for-manslaughter-in-a-midwifery-case/) - A previous blog described a case of crim. con. "Crim. con." is short for criminal conversation or adultery. The accused adulterer or defendant in the case was a member of the clergy, one Rev. Mr. Bate Dudley. I read the case only because Mr. W. Musgrave's signature, inscribed on the inside of the book, had attracted my eye.1 This
- [Use Any Form of Flax Seeds When Making Flax Tea](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/use-any-form-of-flax-seeds-when-making-flax-tea/) - The statistics for my Wordpress website show that several people have landed on my blog while browsing for information about making flaxseed tea. They are asking this question: Do I have to grind flax seeds when making flax tea? The answer is: you can if you want to, but any form of flax seeds will do.
- [Jane Austen's English: Thoughts for JAFF Writers](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/jane-austens-english-thoughts-for-jaff-writers/) - 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 and conjunctions? I like to think she wouldn't be at
- [Anne de Bourgh's Rheumatic Affection](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/anne-de-bourghs-rheumatic-affection/) - My previous blogs about Anne de Bourgh's health asked these questions: What illness made Anne sickly? and Might Anne have had scarlet fever? You may recall that Anne de Bourgh is the heiress of Rosings Park in Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice. In Austen's novel, Elizabeth Bennet describes Anne as being "sickly and cross." For nearly
- [Regency Dietary Treatments for Scarlet Fever](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/06/regency-dietary-treatments-for-scarlet-fever/) - Regency-era doctors threw all sorts of treatments at their patients with scarlet fever: gargles made with hydrochloric acid; gentle potions made with antimony—a compound used to promote perspiration (today antimony is used mainly in industrial processes); and caustic blisters applied to the neck or throat, which surely made the patient miserable both inside and out. "Early, powerful
- [Regency Medical Treatments for Scarlet Fever](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/regency-medical-treatments-for-scarlet-fever/) - Anne de Bourgh, the heiress of Rosings Park in Jane Austen's popular novel Pride and Prejudice, might have been suffering from a debilitating disease that made her sickly and cross: acute rheumatism, consumption (tuberculosis), tussis (a persistent cough), or a nasty catarrh (in other words, an awful cold). I've always thought she might be suffering from
- [Regency Ideas about the Causes of Scarlet Fever](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/regency-ideas-about-the-causes-of-scarlet-fever/) - The origin of contagious diseases has been commonly deemed obscure ..." — W. Blackburne, 18031 Anne de Bourgh, the heiress of Rosings Park in Pride and Prejudice, might have had scarlet fever when she was a teenager. If so, what caused it? Dr. Buchan described two forms of scarlet fever: a simple variety, which seldom required medical
- [Is Scarlet Fever One Disease? or Two? or Three?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/is-scarlet-fever-one-disease-or-two-or-three/) - During the Regency era, scarlet fever was generally recognized as having two forms: a simple version characterized by a mild fever and skin rash, and a malignant version, identified by a high fever and pockets of ulceration in the throat. The latter form was quite dangerous and often fatal, as indicated by Dr. William Buchan, a
- [Did Anne de Bourgh Have Scarlet Fever?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/did-anne-de-bourgh-have-scarlet-fever/) - In my previous blog I speculated about the illness that made Anne de Bourgh sickly and cross. Anne features prominently in my novel Cousin Anne, where the seventeen-year-old heiress can be found in London with her parents. While there she falls in love with Mr. Wickham and later becomes seriously ill. (Presumably there is no connection between these
- [What Illness Made Anne de Bourgh Sickly?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/what-illness-made-anne-de-bourgh-sickly/) - I keep track of the questions that bring readers and other curious parties to my website. A surprising number of people are interested in Anne de Bourgh's inheritance, a scheme which I outlined in a 2014 blog post. A 2015 blog post considered Anne's arranged marriage to her cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy. With this blog post I address one of the
- [Tidbits from Johnstone's London Commercial Guide](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/tidbits-from-johnstones-london-commercial-guide/) - My previous blog described Johnstone's London Commercial Guide,1 published in 1818. The guide includes a street directory showing which individual or business worked at a specific address. I had been browsing Johnstone's guide to find surgeons who were practicing in London around that time. Here are a few other tidbits I found in this interesting tome.
- [The Practice of Surgeons in 1818 London](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/02/the-practice-of-surgeons-in-1818-london/) - 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 books: Johnstone's London Commercial Guide, and Street Directory; on a New and More Efficient Principle
- [Regency Doctors Threw Tobacco Up the Butt](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/02/regency-doctors-threw-tobacco-up-the-butt/) - Recently I was browsing online and discovered this highly entertaining blog by Terynn Boulton titled "When Doctors Literally Blew Smoke Up Your Arse." Blowing tobacco smoke up a patient's bowel was used in cases of "suspended animation" or, in other words, to revive, say, a drowning victim who had stopped breathing but might not be dead.
- [Flaxseed in Jane Austen's Day: Infusions and Poultices](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/flaxseed-in-jane-austens-day-infusions-and-poultices/) - I've been running with the topic of flaxseed (also called linseed) for three weeks now. First I examined Dr. Duncan's comments about flaxseed in The New Edinburgh Dispensatory of 1803. Next, I reviewed the health benefits of flaxseed oil. Last week I discussed some uses of flaxseed oil by Regency-era doctors and surgeons. In this
- [Uses of Flaxseed Oil in Jane Austen's Day: Enemas and Burns](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/uses-of-flaxseed-oil-in-jane-austens-day-enemas-and-burns/) - 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 and therapeutic properties of flaxseed (also called linseed), which information was intended for Regency-era medical practitioners.2 In my
- [Flaxseed Oil Benefits the Heart and Brain](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/flaxseed-oil-benefits-the-heart-and-brain/) - My previous blog post described flaxseed's chemical and therapeutic properties as shown in Dr. Andrew Duncan's book The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, published in 1803.1 He described flaxseed's historical uses, its mucilage content, its oil (expressed by crushing the seeds) and the use of its leftover "oil-cake" to feed animals. In describing flaxseed oil (also known as linseed oil), Duncan remarked:
- [An 1803 Dispensatory Describes Flaxseed](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/an-1803-dispensatory-describes-flaxseed/) - One of the top keywords that bring readers to my blog is "flaxseed." I'm not surprised, for flaxseed—also called "linseed"—is popular here in North America and elsewhere for its many dietary and medicinal uses. I love to talk about flaxseed! I last mentioned flaxseed in my blog of July 7, 2015, where I described how linseed tea was
- [Somerset House: Two Lives on the Thames](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/somerset-house-two-lives-on-the-thames/) - Somerset House on London's Thames River offers quite a few architectural oddities, at least for someone like me who is attracted to Neoclassical architecture but has never read much about it. When my husband and I were in London last year we took 25 photos of the façade of this 18th-century building. We were both entranced by its
- [Good Breeding: The Regency Principle of Decency](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/good-breeding-the-regency-principle-of-decency/) - “An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.” — Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)1 The long, arduous, ugly, disheartening US election is over. Today’s sunrise is a reminder that the world still turns on its axis; we may not be content, but we continue to live and breathe. Now is a good time
- [1783 and 1816: Two Spectacular Weather Years](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/1783-and-1816-two-spectacular-weather-years/) - 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 day of fall (or autumn, as they say in
- [Matthew Flinders: A Regency Officer Remembered Today](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/matthew-flinders-a-regency-officer-remembered-today/) - 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 are encountering unexpected headwinds. In most issues, the weather tables appear just
- [Regency-Era Heresy over the Cause of Childbed Fever](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/regency-era-heresy-over-the-cause-of-childbed-fever/) - "You are all familiar with Dr. Chipman's aphorism, 'The process of parturition is the same in the countess as in the cow.' Very true, but, unfortunately, the results are infinitely better in the cow than in the countess." — Karl M. Wilson, M.D.1 Dr. Wilson published his comment about countesses and cows in 1936. He lamented
- [Childbed Fever: How Many Regency Women Died?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/childbed-fever-how-many-regency-women-died/) - "A deep, dark and continuous stream of mortality."—William Farr, 18761 Most medical practitioners in England's Regency era believed that miasma caused puerperal or childbed fever. The miasma was believed to arrive on foul-smelling air, to emanate from clothing and furniture, or to be given off by a woman's body itself. It seemed to be cured with emetics that made patients
- [Treating a Regency Case of Childbed Fever](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/treating-a-regency-case-of-childbed-fever/) - My previous blog posts examined the supposed causes of childbed fever as they were understood in late 18th-century England, when Jane Austen was a teenager, and also the treatments prescribed to manage the symptoms of this often fatal disease. In reading various books on midwifery and childbed fever published in the late 1700s and early 1800s,
- [Childbed Fever: 18th-Century Cures](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/childbed-fever-18th-century-cures/) - My previous post on childbed fever described the widespread belief that childbed fever — what today we call puerperal infections — was mainly caused by breathing foul, noxious air that arrived on the wind, permeated hospital furniture and people's clothing, or emanated from a woman's own body. In truth, the 18th-century medical practitioners who tended new mothers after delivery had
- [Childbed Fever: More 18th-Century Medical Moonshine](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/06/childbed-fever-more-18th-century-medical-moonshine/) - Earlier this month I took a detour and posted a blog about Whit Stillman's movie Love and Friendship, which is based on Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan. With this blog I am returning to the ever-fascinating topic of Regency medicine and specifically to a discussion of miasma. Previously I discussed quinsy, a serious and sometimes fatal
- [Love and Friendship: A Middling 3.6-Star Movie](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/06/love-and-friendship-a-middling-3-6-star-movie/) - 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 and Friendship (dated 1790) and Lady Susan (so confusing that the movie is based on
- [Quinsy: A Classic Example of Regency Ignorance](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/quinsy-a-classic-example-of-regency-ignorance/) - My previous blog post addressed the practice of "medical moonshine" during the Regency era. In Jane Austen's day miasma — the foul, noxious, polluted air arising from swampy ground or cesspools — was believed to cause most diseases. For chemists and glass-makers and those who worked in foundries and smithies, breathing polluted air was, in fact, responsible for causing certain diseases, particularly
- [Medical Moonshine in Jane Austen's Day](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/medical-moonshine-in-jane-austens-day/) - 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 enjoyed the curative powers of modern medicine. I believe, for instance, that penicillin saved my life when
- [Jane Austen, Llamas and Southern Settlers](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/jane-austen-llamas-and-southern-settlers/) - 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 "National.") Check out that llama in the middle! Ears laid back.
- [5 Things I Learned Sewing Regency Clothing](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/5-things-i-learned-sewing-regency-clothing/) - All's well that ends well, Shakespeare wrote, and so it was with sewing my Regency patterns. I started with a muslin chemise and short stays and finished a long-sleeved, lined morning gown. Here's what I learned in the process. What I Learned 1) Adjusting the bodice shoulder line would be practical. In the photo at right I am
- [A Regency Gown in the Making: Aargh](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/a-regency-gown-in-the-making-aargh/) - After sewing a Regency chemise and short stays — see proof of determination in the photo below — I moved on to greater things: sewing a Regency gown. With each type of clothing I had the pleasure (!?!) of learning something new: the chemise pattern required my sewing two gussets, one under each arm, while the short stays required
- [I Never Met a Gusset I Liked: Sewing a Regency Chemise and Stays](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/i-never-met-a-gusset-i-liked-sewing-a-regency-chemise-and-stays/) - After giving a presentation in character as the opinionated 18th-century baroness Lady Purvis — I was the guest speaker at Ossoli Circle, the oldest federated women's club in the South (founded in 1885) — thanks, Ladies — I am relieved to find that my homemade Regency chemise, stays and gown all held together. Finding Patterns for Regency Clothing To plan
- [Rosings Park: A New Look for My First Book](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/02/rosings-park-a-new-look-for-my-first-book/) - Having had great success with the designers at CreateSpace, who developed the cover for my new novel, Cousin Anne, I decided it was time to make some changes to my first book, Rosings Park. I added a discussion section for readers and hired the CreateSpace design team to develop a new look. The stunning new cover,
- [Who Directs the Story: the Writer or the Characters?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/02/who-directs-the-story-the-writer-or-the-characters/) - Following on my previous blog post about Anne de Bourgh, I wish to address a quirky topic. Who controls the story? The writer or the characters? My first introduction to the idea that characters were in control of their stories occurred some twenty-five or thirty years ago. I was reading an article about or by
- [Let's Talk about Anne de Bourgh](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/lets-talk-about-anne-de-bourgh/) - My new novel about Anne de Bourgh is nearly live—it's being processed by Amazon for both its website and Kindle store as I write. Today seems like a good day to write about this fairly minor character in Jane Austen's popular novel Pride and Prejudice. One thing became clear to me after publishing Rosings Park, my first book about
- [Finding a Good Cover Image: An Indie Publisher's Challenge](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/finding-a-good-cover-image-an-indie-publishers-challenge/) - I’m thrilled with the cover for my second novel—Cousin Anne—which is a prequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The cover, shown at left, was designed by a team at CreateSpace. I love its colors, its ornamental border, the faded roses in the background, and the stylish typography. I love the way the image spreads across
- [Cousin Anne: A New Novel for the New Year](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/cousin-anne-a-new-novel-for-the-new-year/) - My new novel, Cousin Anne, is due out in January -- a new novel for a new year. The book's cover is shown at right. Cousin Anne is a prequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The story focuses on three characters from Austen's most popular novel—Fitzwilliam Darcy, George Wickham, and Anne de Bourgh (the
- [New Book "Cousin Anne" Explores Darcy and Anne de Bourgh's Engagement](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/new-book-cousin-anne-explores-darcy-and-anne-de-bourghs-engagement/) - Have you ever wondered about arranged marriages? It must be awkward to build a life with someone you barely know or don’t like. It must be trying to submit to duty, especially if your heart lies elsewhere. In Jane Austen’s day arranged marriages were still common, although the trend favored seeking affection in marriage over building
- [8 Companies and Organizations Make My Work Easier](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/8-companies-and-organizations-make-my-work-easier/) - 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 grateful to eight online companies and organizations that help
- [Mr. Darcy's Breeding Problem](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/mr-darcys-breeding-problem/) - A Regency era gentleman was a man who knew his place in the world. He guarded his reputation; dressed elegantly; and treated lords, servants, and lowly commoners with great civility.1 By these criteria, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pride and Prejudice fame was every bit a Regency gentleman—except when he wasn’t. In his dealings with his fellow characters
- [A True Regency Gentleman Had Good Breeding](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/a-true-regency-gentleman-had-good-breeding/) - What did Jane Austen mean when she said that a gentleman had good breeding? For example, in Pride and Prejudice Jane Bennet tells her sister Elizabeth that in Mr. Bingley she never saw “so much ease, with such perfect good breeding.”1 In Persuasion Sir Walter Elliot was flattered to have himself described to Admiral Croft as
- [I Am Illiterate by Regency Standards](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/i-am-illiterate-by-regency-standards/) - 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 periodical or a book on medicine,
- [Is Mr. Darcy the Ideal Regency Gentleman?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/is-mr-darcy-the-ideal-regency-gentleman/) - My previous post addressed the issue of why Mr. Darcy—the much loved suitor in Pride and Prejudice—is a gentleman but not a lord. While working on that post I began to wonder: “What exactly is a gentleman?” As it happens I have a book here in my office that describes the rise and fall of
- [Why Isn't Mr. Darcy a Lord?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/why-isnt-mr-darcy-a-lord/) - The most frequently asked question that brings visitors to my blog is this: Why isn’t Mr. Darcy a Lord? In Jane Austen's popular novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy is a gentleman and a Derbyshire landowner with a beautiful estate (Pemberley). He has a handsome annual income of £10,000—an income worthy of a duke or earl. It seems
- [Researching the Regency: Looking through Vic Gatrell's Eyes](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/researching-the-regency-looking-through-vic-gatrells-eyes/) - 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 to cooperate on the issue of her marriage. She can
- [Researching the Regency: Looking through Boswell's Eyes](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/researching-the-regency-looking-through-boswells-eyes/) - In my previous blog post, I mentioned two books that changed my view of the Regency period. The first of these was The Heart of Boswell: Highlights from the Journals of James Boswell, edited by Mark Harris. I bought it for $.75 at my local used bookstore, thinking it would be a good introduction to
- [Researching the Regency: I Stand with Hilary Mantel](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/researching-the-regency-i-stand-with-hilary-mantel/) - After a winter and spring spent writing about pregnancy and childbirth during the Regency era—a topic that fascinates me—I now turn my thoughts to what I’ve learned while researching the Regency era. My first and hardest lesson: feeling confident I have gotten the history right when I know my view of Jane Austen’s world differs
- [The Catch-Me-Who-Can: A True Regency Marvel](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/the-catch-me-who-can-a-true-regency-marvel/) - It’s summer. It’s dang hot. I’m tired of writing about Regency midwives and man-midwives. What sort of light-hearted topic might suit for a short July blog post? Quite by accident I came across an image of Trevithick’s “Catch-Me-Who-Can” steam circus. Ah! Just the thing. This Regency marvel captured my interest on first reading about it
- [A Regency Labor: Are You Prepared to Take a Pain?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/06/a-regency-labor-are-you-prepared-to-take-a-pain/) - Any pregnant woman during the Regency period would have known what a man-midwife meant when he asked: Are you prepared to take a pain? To “take a pain” was a popular expression meaning to submit to an examination per vaginam (“via the vagina”). I found this gem in Dr. Thomas Denman’s book on the practice
- [Anne de Bourgh Sits as a Gossip: Is Society Shocked?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/06/anne-de-bourgh-sits-as-a-gossip-is-society-shocked/) - Would polite Society censure Miss Anne de Bourgh for sitting as a gossip during her friend’s delivery? This question was one of the first I asked when researching my Regency novel, Rosings Park, which is based on characters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It isn’t an easy question to answer. Gossiping was a centuries-old
- [When Gossiping Was a Good Thing](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/when-gossiping-was-a-good-thing/) - Strange as it seems to us, the word “gossip” had a friendly meaning during the Regency period and for many centuries before that: a “gossip” was a woman who attended her daughter's or sister's or friend’s delivery. In its original sense, the word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” During
- [Forceps Use in the Regency Era vs Today](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/forceps-use-in-the-regency-era-vs-today/) - Forceps were invented by a surgeon in the early 17th century and gained acceptance among man-midwives or accoucheurs during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Midwives, not surprisingly, argued strongly against their use, believing the hands were Nature’s best instrument. Today forceps are still used in the delivery room, but there are questions about their
- [5 Things I Learned about Regency Cooking](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/5-things-i-learned-about-regency-cooking/) - My husband and I hosted a Regency dinner party for friends on March 28th. Earlier this month I described the menu or Bill of Fare, as cookbook author John Mollard would call it, and posted photos of the final dishes. In this post I list the five things I learned about cooking a Regency meal using
- [March Folly: Food Served at My Regency Dinner Party](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/march-folly-food-served-at-my-regency-dinner-party/) - Previously I described the menu for my March Folly Regency dinner party held March 28th. Today’s post shows more photos of the cooked dishes I chose from John Mollard’s 1802 cookbook, The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined, Comprising Ample Directions for Preparing Every Article Requisite for Furnishing the Tables of the Nobleman, Gentleman,
- [March Folly: Menu for a Regency Dinner Party](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/march-folly-menu-for-a-regency-dinner-party/) - It’s time for a break from writing about Regency midwifery practices (a topic I’ll return to later). Today I want to share with you my March Folly—the Regency dinner party my big-hearted husband and I hosted for a few close friends. I began planning for it by reading John Mollard’s 1802 cookbook: The Art of
- [Battle Passionné: Midwife vs Man-Midwife](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/battle-passionne-midwife-vs-man-midwife/) - Two parties waged a passionate battle throughout the Regency period and long afterward over the admittance of men to the practice of midwifery. On one side stood the midwives, who promoted patience and a reliance on Nature during delivery. On the opposing side were man-midwives or accoucheurs, who received training in anatomy, physiology, medicine and sometimes
- [Man-Midwives Behaving Badly](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/03/man-midwives-behaving-badly/) - It was not the case that only midwives could be ignorant and incompetent. Some man-midwives were equally injurious when delivering children, despite being trained under doctors and man-midwives who taught classes and used obstetrical machines or phantoms. Mistaking the Placenta for a Tumor Mr. David Evans, a surgeon and man-midwife, described a case in which he
- [Forceps Fostered the Rise of Man-Midwifery](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/02/forceps-fostered-the-rise-of-man-midwifery/) - For most of human history midwives ruled the roost when it came to delivering children, as you may have read in my previous post on Regency midwives. Man-midwives or accoucheurs, as they were known in France, were called to a delivery only when there was a problem or special situation: for example, when a child
- [Midwives Behaving Badly](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/02/midwives-behaving-badly/) - The Regency midwives Margaret Stephen and Martha Mears appear to have been hard-working, knowledgeable, and competent. (See my previous post on these famous midwives.) Margaret Stephen defined her craft as “the art of delivering women safely of their children, and preserving the children from injury” — an outcome equally desired by obstetricians today.1 Martha Mears believed pregnancy
- [Regency Midwives: Toil and Trouble](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/regency-midwives-toil-and-trouble/) - For most of human history the act of giving birth was women’s work. Midwives governed all aspects of the process, from arranging the space where the mother gave birth — the lying-in chamber — to taking charge of the delivery, tying-off the infant’s umbilical cord, and monitoring the mother’s health after the delivery. As the
- [A Life of Perpetual Pregnancy for Regency Women](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/a-life-of-perpetual-pregnancy-for-regency-women/) - Many women today can choose when to become pregnant, thanks to the availability of safe and reliable contraceptives.1 It wasn’t always so. During the Regency period women were often pregnant every few years, beginning within the first or second year of marriage and continuing until they were in their 30s or 40s. An Average of Eight Children
- [Happy birthday, Jane Austen!](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/12/happy-birthday-jane-austen/) - On this day—the 16th of December—Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, in 1775. She was the sixth child and second daughter of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra. Not many drawings of Jane's likeness exist. One of the most famous is this watercolor of Jane painted by her sister, Cassandra, in about 1804. Looking at
- [Does Mr. Darcy Have a Sense of Humor?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/does-mr-darcy-have-a-sense-of-humor/) - Lately I have been thinking about laughter and its importance in marriage, friendship and life. My 88-year-old mother-in-law, Doreen, got me started down this path. Her son—my husband, Peter—and I visited her recently in her new home. She had only moved in a few days previously and was settling nicely. This particular morning, however, an
- [Warm Caudle: A Potion for Regency Women in Childbed](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/11/warm-caudle-a-potion-for-regency-women-in-childbed/) - During England’s Regency period, women in childbed were advised to sip a caudle—a warm drink made by mixing a thin gruel of oatmeal with wine or ale, spices, and sugar. Although often given to sick people, caudles were enjoyed by women in labor and during their confinement, as well as by their family, friends and
- [Clamping the Umbilical Cord: A Return to the Midwifery Practice of Jane Austen's Day](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/clamping-the-umbilical-cord-a-return-to-the-midwifery-practice-of-jane-austens-day/) - When Jane Austen lived, midwives and man-midwives were advised to delay tying off or clamping the umbilical cord—what an early 19th-century midwifery practitioner would call the “navel-string” or funis—until a newly birthed child had gained some mastery over its breathing. Austen herself likely knew very little about this important topic, but it appears that what
- [Linseed Tea: Popular in Jane Austen's Day and Today](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/linseed-tea-popular-in-jane-austens-day-and-today/) - During Jane Austen’s day, linseed tea and other preparations made with linseed were prescribed by doctors and apothecaries to treat a variety of aliments. A simple recipe from Dr. William Buchan’s popular book Domestic Medicine was among those medicines commonly used in 1811: “linseed, an infusion of 1 ounce to a quart of water, may
- [A Tedious Regency Labor: Hog's Lard and Laudanum](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/a-tedious-regency-labor-hogs-lard-and-laudanum/) - Thanks to Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of Pride and Prejudice, the character of Anne de Bourgh is forever fixed as “sickly and cross”1—which begs a question: Why is she so disagreeable? In my Regency novel, Rosings Park, Anne has two reasons to be cross as crabs. First, she has returned home from a trip to Tunbridge
- [Anne de Bourgh: Heiress, Landowner, Change Leader](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/anne-de-bourgh-heiress-landowner-change-leader/) - Anne de Bourgh, the heroine of my novel, Rosings Park, is an heiress who inherited a considerable property when her father died. With his death she became the Master—now held accountable for her estate's success and sometimes derided for being a woman standing in a man's shoes. After reading Rosings Park, my dearest friend, Dawn-Marie
- [It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/it-is-a-truth-universally-acknowledged/) - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”1 It is another truth that the opening sentence of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is considered among the most memorable in all fiction. Two years ago The Telegraph placed it at # 1
- [Anne de Bourgh Inherited Rosings Park](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/anne-de-bourgh-inherited-rosings-park/) - When I first began plotting my novel, Rosings Park, I knew two things about the Regency period: the Napoleonic wars raged across Europe and a pelisse was a woman’s garment usually worn outdoors. Being ignorant of nearly every aspect of Regency life, I was forced to start at the beginning with the most important question
- [Mr. Darcy Was a Second-Class Citizen](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/mr-darcy-was-a-second-class-citizen/) - Fitzwilliam Darcy was the handsome, wealthy gentleman who fell in love with the sparkling Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth’s mother was confounded and amazed to hear that her daughter would marry a man of fortune, especially as she at first thought Darcy was “a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing,
- [There's a Leech for That!](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/theres-a-leech-for-that/) - If you lived during England's Regency era (1811-1820), you considered leeching a standard medical therapy for nearly every ailment. Did you suffer from pleurisy? Then leeches were applied to your rib cage where the stitch or side pain was located. Was your brain inflamed from too much passionate study or hard drinking? Then lessen brain pressure
- [Did Jane Austen Die from Nervous Consumption on July 18, 1817?](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/07/did-jane-austen-die-from-nervous-consumption-on-july-18-1817/) - July 18. At Winchester, Miss Jane Austen, youngest daughter of Rev. George Austen, Rector of Steventon, Hants, authoress of “Emma,” “Mansfield Park,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Sense and Sensibility.” These paltry words announced Jane Austen's death in the August 1817 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine. Her obituary notice, shown in the image, is very like
- [Men Won the Inheritance Game In Jane Austen’s Time](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/men-won-the-inheritance-game-in-jane-austens-time/) - After reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time some 25 years ago, I began to wonder about the novel’s heiress, Miss Anne de Bourgh. Was Anne’s character and situation based on a real person? Had Jane Austen become acquainted with an heiress, perhaps during visits to her brother’s estate, Godmersham, in Kent? Did Austen
- [Naming Mr. Darcy and Lady Catherine in <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/naming-mr-darcy-and-lady-catherine-in-pride-and-prejudice/) - Authors find inspiration for character names in interesting places. Charles Dickens sometimes changed a surname’s spelling—Edwin Trood, landowner of the Falstaff Inn, became Edwin Drood—or he drew names from real life. Mr. Pickwick, for example, was a Bath coach owner. What of Jane Austen? What is known of her sources for character names? Some character
- [Jane Austen and the Ginger Rogers Syndrome](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/jane-austen-and-the-ginger-rogers-syndrome/) - Those of you born after 1950 might be wondering: What the heck is the Ginger Rogers Syndrome? The condition won’t be found in any medical textbook, I assure you, but the condition may exist nonetheless. Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared on Broadway and starred in more than 70
- [I’m a Jane Girl - Jane Eyre & Jane Austen](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/im-a-jane-girl-jane-eyre-and-jane-austen/) - At the age of thirteen I became a Jane girl―Jane Eyre, not Jane Austen. I discovered Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre during one of my regular visits to the Chattanooga public library. While my mother browsed the fiction section in the library’s high-ceilinged front room, I roamed the stacks, where I had already discovered books
- [How I Know I'm Not a Witch](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/how-i-know-im-not-a-witch/) - I know that I am not a witch. But how do I know that? Why am I so confident that I don't have any witchery in me? For one thing, I am not interested in sorcery.
- [I Am Not a Witch](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/01/i-am-not-a-witch/) - I am not a witch. I don't know how to prepare potions or cast spells. I have no supernatural powers. I can't control people or events. I love wearing bright colors and seldom wear black. I have no familiar, by which I mean any small animal or creature given to me by the Devil to I am not a witch. I don't know how to prepare potions or cast spells. I have no supernatural powers. I can't control people or direct events.
- [AI Writes a Good Blog about Body-Snatching](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/ai-writes-a-good-blog-about-body-snatching/) - AI writes a good blog about body-snatching, giving a concise and well-balanced review. The result made me wonder whether my blogging days are over.
- [Book 2 of My Trilogy Is Available Online](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/book-2-of-my-trilogy-is-available-online/) - Book 2 of my trilogy is available online. "Naught but Butchers" continues the story of the young surgeon James Hammond, who leaves London for Nottingham.
- [Book 3 of My Trilogy Is Available Online](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/05/book-3-of-my-trilogy-is-available-online/) - Book 3 of my trilogy is available at both Amazon and Smashwords. (Books 1 and 2 are also found there.) Book 3 continues Hammond's journey to achieve success.
- [Thanks, Mary Balogh, for Your Delightful Stories!](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/thanks-mary-balogh-for-your-delightful-stories/) - Here's a remarkable statistic: I have read Mary Balogh's novel "Slightly Dangerous" 19 times since I first discovered it in 2018 ... a remarkable statistic.
- [Surgery Was Also Awful for Regency Surgeons](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/surgery-was-also-awful-for-regency-surgeons/) - Surgery was awful for Regency surgeons too. When performing operations to save a patient's life, they knew the greatest cost to their patient was extreme pain.
- [Quotations Used in My Novelette Cousin Anne](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/09/quotations-used-in-my-novelette-cousin-anne/) - In this blog I list the quotations used in my novelette Cousin Anne. I posted them here, rather than adding them to the back matter as I usually do.
- [Rev. Mr. Bate Dudley Accused of Crim. Con.](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/rev-mr-bate-dudley-accused-of-crim-con/) - 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 during these years provide the background information for my Regency-era novels. Occasionally, when
- [Regency Surgery Was Awful](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/regency-surgery-was-awful/) - Regency surgery was awful. Patients underwent operations without anesthesia and antibiotics and with very little antiseptics and analgesics.
- [My Regency Website Has a New Look!](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/08/my-regency-website-has-a-new-look/) - My Regency website has a new look, starting with the featured image of Issac Robert Cruikshank's drawing of the Steyn, Brighton in 1825.
- [Vade Mecum Books: Handy Regency-Era Guides](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/10/vade-mecum-books-handy-regency-era-guides/) - 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 Graham's Poldark series; and Daphne du Maurier's romantic thriller My Cousin Rachel. Occasionally I return
- [Book 1 of My Trilogy Is Live Online](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/book-1-of-my-trilogy-is-live-online/) - Book 1 of my Surgeon's Duty trilogy -- titled Ravaging the Dead -- is live and can be found as both a paperback and a Kindle eBook on Amazon. It can also be found as an eBook on Smashwords. The trilogy tells a tale of body-snatchers and surgeons in Jane Austen's England. The year is
- [Body-snatching in the United States](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/06/body-snatching-in-the-united-states/) - The business of body-snatching thrived in Jane Austen's England. It also flourished in Scotland (1), Ireland (2), on the continent (3), and in the United States (US) and Canada. The success of the body-snatcher or Resurrection man (as he was sometimes called) arose from the advancement of medicine as a science. Doctors and surgeons wished to
- [Elizabeth Bennet Made Me Write a Trilogy](https://www.moorgatebooks.com/04/elizabeth-bennet-made-me-write-a-trilogy/) - Nearly everybody has heard of Elizabeth Bennet, the spunky young lady in Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is so popular that she has her own Wikipedia page, where curious persons can read a detailed analysis of her character. Known for her beauty, charm, and wit, Elizabeth Bennet is a force to be reckoned

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