My Perfect Hero
I’ll happily admit it. My favourite Regency hero of all time is Mr Darcy. Bizarrely I love his aloof stiffness. I love it because you...
19th Century ‘Hysteria’ and … (ahem) Medicinal Masturbation
Yes. You did just read the words ‘medicinal masturbation’ although it certainly was never called that in the 19th century! But more of...
The Age of Agony: a beginners guide to 19th century surgery
Surgery in the early 19th century usually meant a death sentence. It was the last resort and never undertaken lightly. Statistics from...
Being Barbara Cartland
This article was a guest blog on the brilliant Chicks, Rogues and Scandal in June 2016 and can be viewed HERE in its original format...
Thank-you Mr Darcy...
I read my first romance novel somewhere around twelve, and from then on I was hooked. However, it took another thirty years for me to...
How the smugglers helped shape the English language…
For most of us, our knowledge of smugglers in the 18th and 19th centuries comes from the stereotype we have seen on films and television....
21st Century Technology & the Crispy Prawn...
I really do try not to be useless. I am great believer in the old adage that change is good and that being able to adapt to change is a...
Regency Reformers, Radicals & Revolutionaries
As a lover and writer of Regency romances, it is easy to get swept away with Jane Austen’s view of that world, where ladies and gentlemen...
Send them to the Tower! Please...
I am lucky enough to live just 30 minutes from the city of London by train and the station I go into is Tower Hill. To all non-Londoners...
