Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• What Do You Think of Downton Abbey Season 6 So Far?
  Curious readers. I present to you a poll. Please vote. Please be honest. Curious minds want to know what American audiences think about this last season! Click on the choices below to take the poll. You may vote for 3 categories: Season 1 plus Season 2 plus Vic.  Filed under: Downton Abbey, Jane Austen’s World
• Happy New Year! Guess What I DID!!!?!
  OK, you’ll never guess. I began Operation New (to me) Desk! This project entailed cleaning, discarding, and organizing. Three things I’m not good at. Phase One is complete. The old desk is out. The new desk is in. The new … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-01-21 06:21:11.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Twelfth Night Customs: Wassailing the Apple Trees
  Today is Epiphany, the day when Christians celebrate the arrival of the Three Magi (or Three Wise Men or Three Kings) with (not particularly useful) presents for Baby Jesus. In some countries, like Spain, this is still the day when … Continue reading →
• Austen vs Brontë
  How better to start 2016 at Risky Regencies than with a cat fight? Not a real one, of course, but a literary one pitting Jane Austen against Charlotte Brontë. I just read Why Charlotte Brontë Hated Jane Austen by Susan Ostrov Weisser … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-01-14 06:20:11.

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• Darcy is a … what? Lynn Messina tells all
  I don’t know about you but I’ve become a bit jaded about Pride & Prejudice retellings. All that marital bliss, all that Darcy-Firth-wet shirt angsty goodness, but none of the wit and snarkiness of our dear Jane’s original. Until that … Continue reading →
• Scholarly Covers 3: the Search for Spock
  ETA: The giveaway is now closed (as are cover requests–if I didn’t get to yours, see you next year!). Rube won the book! So way back in 2013 I noticed that Booklikes was using the wrong cover for Cecilia Grant’s … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-01-07 06:21:18.

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• Reading about Emma
  The theme of the 2016 JASNA AGM is Emma. Consider what some of JASNA’s authors have already written
  on this topic.
• Holidays Happy and Merry
  Holidays of the season are right behind us — Happy Hanukah — and just ahead — Merry Christmas. Please lets share with each other a gift of the season. Tell us your favorite holiday romance, historical, contemporary and/or Paranormal. I’ll … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2015-12-31 06:20:04.

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• Happy (belated) National Tea Day
  Yesterday was National Tea Day, and it of course got me looking at period tea resources. One of the things I found was a small pamphlet from 1785 called The Tea Purchaser’s Guide; or the Lady and Gentleman’s Tea Table … Continue reading →
• Celebrating Jane Austen’s Birthday
  Jane Austen was born on a bitterly cold night on December 16, 1775. Little is known about birthday celebrations on one’s natal day during the Regency era. Jane makes no mention of them, as far as I know, in her letters and novels. Please correct me if I am wrong. Common sense tells us that […]

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Originally posted 2015-12-24 06:20:56.

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• A Look Back: Pride and Prejudice 2005 and Clueless 1995
  I’d like to share my thoughts on two Jane Austen movies before the end of the year: Pride and Prejudice, 2005 and Clueless, 1995. Pride and Prejudice 2005 premiered in November ten years ago in the U.S.. I recall watching the film with two members of our Jane Austen book club. The three of us […]

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Originally posted 2015-12-17 06:20:09.

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• Risky Regencies: Christmas Rant and Some Music
  Long time visitors to the Riskies know I have a complicated relationship with Christmas. I detest the whole commercial aspect and I also despise the idea that the season magically fixes things. However, I embrace the season in my own … Continue reading →
• Jane Austen’s World: Cooking with Austen
• JASNA’s Schedule

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Originally posted 2015-12-12 06:20:29.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Christmas Rant and Some Music
  Long time visitors to the Riskies know I have a complicated relationship with Christmas. I detest the whole commercial aspect and I also despise the idea that the season magically fixes things. However, I embrace the season in my own … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2015-12-11 22:10:43.