by Diane Morris | Dec 29, 2018 | Inheritance, Regency Women
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...
by Diane Morris | Sep 20, 2018 | Estate Management, Inheritance, Regency Women
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...
by Diane Morris | Aug 20, 2014 | Inheritance, Pride and Prejudice
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...
