Joanna Bourne

I've just had Pax do a portrait with charcoal, ink and pastels. Him being an artist of sorts. So I have all this spare information ab...

Abigail Adams, in 1800, saw visiting Frenchwomen wearing Empire-style dresses in Philadelphia and wrote in a letter: "The stile of dr...

I've been try ing to imagine what the streets of Paris and London looked like and felt like underfoot in the Georgian and Regency eras. ...

Talking about Georgian and Regency bathtubs, here, and the joys of getting clean.    There is a general view that historical people wer...

Talking about the battle memorials our Regency Folks would have known. The oldest ones . . . We don't know what sort of memorials w...

Ice cream is exquisite.  What a pity it isn't illegal.  ~Voltaire   There's a certain perversity to Mother Nature. Take  ...

You've probably asked yourself, from time to time, if there are any Shakespeare  quotes about goldfish. Did Shakespeare say, "Th...

Jennie at Dear Author, reviewing Caroline Linden's book, You Only Live Once , says, ". . . reflections on the French Revolution m...

Regency Bling The Regency gentleman's code might be summed up as, "no perfumes, exquisitely fine linen and plenty of it, coun...

One of the minor disappointments of life is that there are no croissants in the Regency. My characters can enjoy flaky rolls, buns, sliced b...

I'm talking about Sticks and Canes over at Word Wenches. I am now a Word Wench. *jo hugs herself madly* This is so wonderful. I ...

It's a great pity to do lots of research and find stuff out and then realize you will never be able to use most of it.  Over the last ...

I was thinking I'd add a 'Useful Bibliography of the History of France, with particular attention to the period of the French Revol...

Here we are talking about the headwear of middleclass and working class women in 1794. Women's hats and caps. (With any of these i...

We're back for another installment of the clothing of the working and middle classes in France in 1794. This one is on Aprons and 'P...