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Review of ‘The Flower of Empire’

Romances or History? A Belle-Esprit and a Marchionesse Debate Novels

February 6, 2013 18th Century belle-esprit Classicsim Defense of Novels history Jane Austen Novels Reading Romances Romanticism The Lady's Magazine Leave a Comment

In Defense of Novels: Jane Austen’s Perspective

January 21, 2013 18th Century Author Angst Defense of Novels Jane Austen Milton Northanger Abbey Novels Pope Sterne The Spectator writers Writing Leave a Comment

An 18th Century Perspective on Elizabeth Bennet

December 7, 2012 1791 1796 18th Century 19th century Elizabeth Bennet Jane Austen letters Susannah Fullerton The Lady's Magazine 2 Comments

A Family Affair: Mozart’s Sister

August 22, 2011 18th Century artists Films music women Leave a Comment

The Secret Diary of a Princess: A Review

July 22, 2011 18th Century Books France Marie Antoinette 12 Comments

Novel Recommendation: The Secret Diary of a Princess

July 14, 2011 Marie Antoinette reads writers 2 Comments

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Research

18th Century Clothing Notebook
18th Century Directory
Anglo American Legal Tradition
Debrett's Essential Guide to the Peerage
Dictionary of Military Architecture
Dictionary of Sexual Terms and Expressions
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Eighteenth Century Studies
Horwood's Plan of London and Westminster
Kipar's Late 17th Century Clothing
Kyoto Costume Institute Archives, 1720-1993
Ladies Magazine, 1790-1825
Locating London's Past
Medieval and Classical Library
Old Bailey Online
Recollections of Leonard Autie
The Georgian Index
The Lewis Walpole Library
The Peerage
The Regency Page
V&A 18th Century Fashion

Historical Fiction

Elizabeth Chadwick: Living the History
Enchanted by Josephine
History Hoydens
History Undressed
Laura Purcell | Historical Fiction, Georgian Style
Madame Guillotine
Past Times Books
Tea at Trianon
Versailles and More

Historical Romance

Hearts Through History
Mary Jean Adams
Risky Regencies
Titillating Tidbits about the Life and Times of Marie Antoinette

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