Inquiring readers: The two summers before Jane Austen’s death, cold and wet weather plagued Great Britain due to a volcanic eruption in 1815 half a world away. This article discusses the reasons for the unseasonably cold weather and its effects on the world’s population, concentrating on those who lived in Great Britain. Tambora’s Eruption On […]
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Jane Austen’s Last Years Without a Summer
Posted in Jane Austen's World, Servants, Tambora's Weather Effects, tagged Chilblains, Jane Austen's Last Year, Tambora Volcanic Eruption on June 22, 2022| 8 Comments »
Keeping a Clean House Regency Style
Posted in 18th c. servants, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Servants, tagged Daniel Pool, Regency house cleaning, Susannah Whatman on June 8, 2022| 13 Comments »
Inquiring readers, I despise housework. As I lugged my vacuum cleaner from room to room I thought: ‘It could be worse. I would only have a broom or mop had I lived in 1810.’ And so I should be grateful to clean my house in the 21st century. But what were the duties a typical […]
Lady’s Maids and their Upward Career Path to Housekeeper, Part 1
Posted in 18th c. servants, 19th Century Servants, Jane Austen's World, tagged Lady's Maids, Regency Servants on March 9, 2022| 18 Comments »
Introduction Inquiring readers: This is the first of a post on the subject of the upward mobility for two upper servant positions. Part One examines the duties of the lady’s maid, and her motivation for continuing in a position that was hard and demanding, and that required her to be loyal and subservient to her […]
Party Like the Musgroves
Posted in 19th century food, Christmas, Georgian Christmas food, Georgian Life, Jane Austen's World, Old English Customs, Regency Christmas Traditions, Regency Customs, Regency Drink, Regency food, Regency Life on December 18, 2021| 1 Comment »
I love the idea of a Regency-style Christmas season, complete with gifts, foods, and traditions that Jane Austen and her heroines might have enjoyed. Though Christmas traditions were different during Jane Austen’s time than they are today, as I share in my article about Regency Christmas Traditions, it’s fun to think of creative ideas that […]
Jane Austen, Mathematician by Victoria Grossack
Posted in Emma, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Life, Sense and Sensibility, tagged Jane Austen Mathematician, Regency Actuaries, Victoria Grossack on August 15, 2021| 4 Comments »
Inquiring readers: Victoria Grossack, FCAS, the author of this piece and an actuary, sent this highly interesting article about Jane Austen and mathematics, a first topic for this blog. Enjoy! Janeites esteem Jane Austen as a literary genius. Her characters are exquisitely drawn and her dialogue can be wickedly funny. She also uses the stream […]
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Black London by Gretchen Gerzina
Free E-Book: Gerzina has written a fascinating account of London blacks, focusing on the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of a paucity of sources from blacks themselves, Gerzina had to rely primarily on glimpses through white eyes, especially those of antislavery advocate Granville Sharp. Gerzina is quite adept at culling evidence of a rich, complex black life, with significant interaction (and intermarriage) with the white community. Although subjected to much discrimination, London blacks never suffered as much as their American counterparts. The author rightly concludes that blacks have played an important role in the life of London for much of its history.
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In Sri Lanka lies the grave of Rear Admiral Charles Austen CB, Jane Austen’s Brother
The neglected tombstone found in an overgrown burial ground.
Rear Admiral Charles Austen CB
Died off Prome, the 7th October 1852, while in command of the Naval Expedition on the river Irrawady against the Burmese Forces, aged 73 years.”
The grave after restoration
Read the full article in The Sunday Times. June 27, 2021.
The Obituary of Charlotte Collins by Andrew Capes
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