The Wedding!

The Kiss! [Image from Telegraph.co.uk] See more pictures at the British Monarchy Flickr photostream, and more of everything at the offical wedding website.

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Royal Wedding Dresses at Kensington Palace

From the BBC News website: To celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Kate, Kensington Palace has brought out six sumptuous gowns – seldom seen by the public – all worn by royal brides over the past 200 years. Take a look with Senior Curator Joanna Marschner, and see how fashions changed through the decades. [...]

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Coming Soon to Your Mailbox! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine Issue 51

The May/June 2011 issue [ Number 51] of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is now on sale and has been mailed to subscribers. In the new issue:  Americans in Bath ~ Celebrating 50 years of the American Museum in Britain  Battle Wounds and Bedlam ~ Living with illness in Georgian times   Loitering with James ~ [...]

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Your Austen Library ~ ‘A Jane Austen Education’

  In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author’s novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen’s teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz’s A [...]

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Happy Easter!

[Vintage Postcard from my collection] Hope your day is filled with Love, Jane Austen, and Chocolate! Copyright @2011, by Deb Barnum of Jane Austen  in Vermont

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Follow Friday [a day early!] ~ Regency Dances.org

Regency Dancing was how young ladies and young gentlemen met and courted, and the dance floor was often the only place they could talk without being overheard by their chaperones. As was to be expected, the dancing was lively and flirtateous. The dancing needs to be accurate and elegant, but always remember that it is [...]

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Royal School of Needlework

I happened to catch this on CBS’s Sunday Morning while trekking on my tredmill – a very nice piece on the Royal School of Needlework, located in the Hampton Court Palace: The RSN is the international centre for teaching, practicing and promoting hand embroidery across a wide range of techniques. We offer hand embroidery courses [...]

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Regency England at the Huntington Library

The Huntington Library is hosting an exhibit “Revisiting the Regency: England, 1811-1820″ from April 23 – August 1, 2011: A new exhibition takes a closer look at a glittering yet turbulent era.  In October of 1810, England’s King George III slipped into that final madness from which only death would release him, nearly a decade [...]

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Regency Life ~ Savannah Style

The Owens-Thomas House in Savannah, Georgia is considered by architectural historians to be one of the finest examples of English Regency architecture in America. Inspired by classical antiquity, this style of architecture takes its name from England’s King George IV, who ruled as Prince Regent from 1811 to 1820. The house was designed by the young [...]

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A Look at Life In Miniature

You must look in on this online exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: The Miniature World of Faith Bradford The scale of this 23-room house is one inch to one foot, accommodating the miniatures that Faith Bradford (1880–1970) played with as a girl and collected as an adult. She imagined the dwelling [...]

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