by Diane Morris | Oct 8, 2015 | Life & Times, Regency Gentleman, Regency Research
The first lesson I learned researching the Regency era is that it’s hard to get the history right. The second lesson learned is this: if I were a man living in Jane Austen’s day, I would be considered illiterate. This point is driven home whenever I read a popular...
by Diane Morris | Aug 6, 2015 | Life & Times, Regency Research
In my previous blog post, I mentioned two books that changed my view of the Regency period. The first of these was The Heart of Boswell: Highlights from the Journals of James Boswell, edited by Mark Harris. I bought it for $.75 at my local used bookstore, thinking it...
by Diane Morris | Jul 23, 2015 | Regency Research
After a winter and spring spent writing about pregnancy and childbirth during the Regency era—a topic that fascinates me—I now turn my thoughts to what I’ve learned while researching the Regency era. My first and hardest lesson: feeling confident I have gotten the...
by Diane Morris | Aug 30, 2014 | Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”1 It is another truth that the opening sentence of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is considered among the most memorable in all fiction. Two...
