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 | Dec 16, 2017 | Jane Austen, Regency Research
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...
by Diane Morris | Feb 23, 2017 | Regency Research, surgeons & surgery
In pursuit of background material on a character in my third Regency novel, which is in production, I recently found myself browsing nearly every page in Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide. The full title of this weighty tome is typical of many Regency-era...
by Diane Morris | Sep 8, 2016 | Life & Times, Regency Research
Recently I happened to be perusing the 1816 volume of The Gentleman’s Magazine. I was photocopying the meteorological tables, beginning with March, so that I would have a sense of the weather conditions for the months in which several characters in my new novel...
by Diane Morris | Nov 19, 2015 | Regency Research
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, my favorite holiday of the year. I love the turkey dressing, cranberry sauce and desserts; I love the colorful Fall place settings and flowers; I love having fun with family. I have much to be thankful for. In my business I am...
