by Diane Morris | Jan 24, 2019 | Publishing, Writing
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...
by Diane Morris | Mar 21, 2018 | Medicine, Regency Research
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....
by Diane Morris | Aug 16, 2017 | Marriage, Regency Research
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...
by Diane Morris | Nov 25, 2016 | Public Buildings
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...
by Diane Morris | Oct 20, 2016 | Medicine, Regency Research, surgeons & surgery
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...
