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Two Awards Wherein I Break All The Rules

March 25, 2013 Blog Award Liebster Versatile Blogger 2 Comments

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s The Ray, or The Kitchen Interior

Simon Chadin's still-life The Ray 1728
March 20, 2013 1728 18th Century Food French Customs Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Skate Fish The Ray Leave a Comment

A Beauty in Search of Knowledge

18th century mezzotint
March 5, 2013 18th Century Novels women's issues 6 Comments

Through the Fish Bowl: A Girl at a Window

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February 26, 2013 1799 18th Century Louis-Leopold Boilly 4 Comments

18th Century Beauty Rituals: Chicken Skin Gloves

A model white complexion, 18th century
February 18, 2013 18th Century Aristocrats Beauty Rituals Bluebloods Pale Skin White Lead Powder 6 Comments

Review: Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell

February 7, 2013 English History Ethelred forbidden love Historical Fiction medieval queens 4 Comments

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

Visit to a Library, 1760 | Pietro Longhi.
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

Dueling Fashionistas: Lady Jane Harrington v. Jane Halliday

Lady Jane Halliday, 1779 | SIr Joshua Reynolds
January 31, 2013 1778 1779 18th Century Aristocrats Dueling Fashionistas Joshua Reynolds Ladies 13 Comments

Interview with Susannah Fullerton, Author of ‘Celebrating Pride and Prejudice’

January 28, 2013 1813 Celebrating Pride and Prejudice Georgian Novels Jane Austen JASA Susannah Fullerton 4 Comments

In Defense of Novels: Jane Austen’s Perspective

Lady Reading in a Wooded Park, 1770 | George Stubbs
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

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