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 | No 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 […]
Read More »Surgeon Sentenced for Manslaughter in a Midwifery Case
Diane Morris | Friday, October 20th, 2017 | surgeons & surgery | No Comments
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 […]
Read More »Use Any Form of Flax Seeds When Making Flax Tea
Diane Morris | Thursday, September 14th, 2017 | Flaxseed | 2 Comments
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. […]
Read More »Rev. Mr. Bate Dudley Accused of Crim. Con.
Diane Morris | Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 | Marriage, Regency Research | 2 Comments
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 […]
Read More »Jane Austen’s English: Thoughts for JAFF Writers
Diane Morris | Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 | Jane Austen, Regency Research | No Comments
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 […]
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