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.) […]
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Diane Morris | Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 | Inheritance, Pride and Prejudice | 11 Comments
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 […]
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