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Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Storing Clothing in the Georgian Era: The Clothes Press
  One of the questions I get a lot when giving clothing workshops is “How did people store their clothes”? The answers are obviously very different across the classes, but in general my audience wants to know about the gentry and … Continue reading →
• Winter 2016 issue of Persuasions On-Line
  A new issue of JASNA’s online Journal is published with selected papers from the Annual General Meeting in Washington DC.

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Originally posted 2016-12-22 06:20:35.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Flash Sale for Charity!
  Hello. Last week fellow Risky Gail posted about being busy with church lady activities. I’m in the same situation right now, getting ready for my congregation’s annual Holiday Art and Gift Sale. If I’d had time, I would have looked … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-12-15 06:20:03.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• All the Bookish News!
  Today I come to you with all kinds of bookish news: I’m currently knee-deep into the production of new print editions of all of my books. (It kind of hit me when I was preparing  Eagle’s Honor: Ravished, which I … Continue reading →
• A Regency Christmas in Bound By A Scandalous Secret
  Bound By A Scandalous Secret, available in paperback and ebook, begins and ends in the Christmas season. I’ve written about Christmas before in A Twelfth Night Tale (my only Christmas novella, still available in the Governess Brides Bundle), but I … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-12-08 06:21:34.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Bound By A Scandalous Secret
  Bound By A Scandalous Secret, my latest book and the third book in the Scandalous Summerfields, is released today! Here’s the back cover blurb: A most shocking betrothal! The pleasure-seeking Marquess of Rossdale has little interest in his birthright and even … Continue reading →
• Topic for 2017 Essay Contest Announced
  The topic of the JASNA 2017 Essay Contest aligns with the JASNA Annual General Meeting theme,
  “Jane Austen in Paradise: Intimations of Immortality,” taking place in Huntington Beach, CA, in October, 2017.

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Originally posted 2016-11-24 06:21:14.

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• Author Websites
  I’m putting some serious thought into a long-needed upgrade to my rather lamentably home-made website, www.elenagreene.com and I’d love to have some input from readers. Of course it is important to have a website that is uncluttered and easy to … Continue reading →
• Elections, Regency Style Redux!
  I originally wrote this blog Nov 5, 2012, so this is a redux (giving me time to finish the work-in-progress) Tomorrow is Election Day here in the USA and when you live in a swing state (Virginia) in the suburbs … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-11-17 06:20:55.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Amanda’s The Queen’s Christmas Summons
  Diane here, posting for Amanda whose WordPress is doing wonky things. Here’s Amanda! I’m so happy to be back at the Riskies today! I hope I can still be considered a part-time (or honorary) Risky). I’m also so excited to … Continue reading →
• Farewell post: Romantic Halloween
  Hello Riskies! It is with great sorrow that I announce that today marks my last Risky post. It’s been wonderful being part of your community for the last two years. Stay in touch! (The best ways to do that are … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-11-03 06:22:24.

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• Colonial Spirits & a Bit of News
  I’m super excited to share the news that I’ll be giving THREE workshops at next year’s Historical Novel Society conference in Portland. I’m giving my popular History of Underthings workshop, co-presenting my Georgian and Victorian “kickshaws” workshop with Delilah Marvelle, … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-10-27 06:20:33.

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• Blogs: Past Present and Future
  Blogs are one of the best developments of the Internet. They have given inividuals a chance to share their interests in everything from Period fashion to Type II Diabetes. But I think that blogs are fading in popularity. Be warned … Continue reading →
• Regency Treasures in Worcester, MA
  Last weekend, I enjoyed a visit to the Worcester Museum of Art. It’s not a huge museum like another favorite, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but it has interesting collections, laid out and presented in a way that … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-10-20 06:20:21.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• The Nottingham Goose Fair
  The first Wednesday of October is the traditional date for the Nottingham Goose Fair, which today is a huge pleasure fair. But as its name suggests, in former times, one of the main goods being sold at that fair were … Continue reading →
• Announcing Sanditon: 200 years
  “Sanditon: 200 Years” is a conference that will take place at Trinity College, Cambridge from March 29-31, 2017.
  The conference will mark the bicentenary of the composition of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, Sanditon, in a year that also
  marks the bicentenary of Austen’s death.

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Originally posted 2016-10-13 06:21:02.

Looks What’s Brewing in the Regency

• Special Guest on Friday!
  On Friday (Sept 30) at Risky Regencies, we’ll have Caroline Warfield as our guest! Caroline has a book giveaway for you and a fascinating glimpse of a Canadian setting used in her new release, The Renegade Wife. Her new “post-Regency” … Continue reading →
• A little poor looking insignificant old woman
  As part of my recent research dive into All Things Hamilton, I read a book that had been sitting on my shelf for years, that I originally intended to read as research for my Regency spy story A Lily Among … Continue reading →

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Originally posted 2016-10-06 06:21:09.