Four Things I Learned Writing a Trilogy
Diane Morris | Sunday, November 14th, 2021 | surgeons & surgery, Writing | No Comments
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 […]
Read More »Recipes for Brewing Flaxseed Tea
Diane Morris | Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 | Flaxseed | No Comments
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 […]
Read More »A Bit of Regency Dash for My Blog
Diane Morris | Thursday, January 24th, 2019 | Publishing, Writing | No Comments
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 […]
Read More »Regency Women Who Inherited Real Property (Part 2)
Diane Morris | Saturday, December 29th, 2018 | Inheritance, Regency Women | No Comments
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, […]
Read More »Some Regency Women Owned Property (Part 1)
Diane Morris | Thursday, September 20th, 2018 | Estate Management, Inheritance, Regency Women | No Comments
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.) […]
Read More »The Bluestocking Story: Facts and Fogs
Diane Morris | Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 | Regency Women | 2 Comments
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 […]
Read More »Maryville Book Club DiVAs Read Rosings Park
Diane Morris | Sunday, May 27th, 2018 | Presentations | No Comments
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 […]
Read More »The Regency World’s View of Viruses
Diane Morris | Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 | Medicine, Regency Research | No Comments
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; […]
Read More »Fitzwilliam Darcy, Esquire?
Diane Morris | Tuesday, January 16th, 2018 | Mr. Darcy, Regency Gentleman | No Comments
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” […]
Read More »On Jane Austen’s Birthday: It’s All About Books
Diane Morris | Saturday, December 16th, 2017 | Jane Austen, Regency Research | No Comments
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 […]
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