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Reticule and Ridicule - and other fashionable items of the Regency era

Satirists christened the reticule - the bag adopted by Regency ladies when their diaphanous dresses allowed no pockets - the ridicule. The reticule spoke of wealth and connections and were a delectable fashion item as well as being practical. The name, reticule most likely came from France, derived from the Latin reticulum the latin for 'net'.
Reticules could be bought from milliners but many ladies made their own, often to match a spencer, parasol, gloves or shoes.
Rectangular and lozenge sha...

New Book Review: WHAT REMAINS OF HEAVEN

I have just enjoyed another Sebastian St. Cyr mystery by C.S. Harris. Her research is impeccible and she tells a great story. I love it when I can't pick the murderer until the end. Don't read it if you want to dwell in Regency drawing rooms, Sebastian rarely spends much time in one. He is more often in dark alleys or in the case of this one, ancient church crypts. Harris' Regency world is a dark one, so accurately described you can see, smell and almost taste it. I delighted in every sentenc...

Book Reviews

I have had the pleasure of reading several excellent books I can happily recommend.

Anne Whitfield's BROKEN HERO set during the Second World War in Yorkshire, 1944. A troubled love affair is played out against the backdrop of war and cleverly shows how war destroys families.

Margaret Blake's BELOVED DECEIVER is a contemporary romance set between Corfu and London. Flora, the heroine is likeable and believable and the book is entertaining and well written.

Alice Gaines MISS FOSTER'S FOLLY is a de...

Spies during the Napoleonic Wars - LOVE AND WAR is a featured book at New Concepts Publishing

I love writing Regencies about spies and now have three novellas where spies make an appearance. But the spies during the Napoleonic era were not like James Bond or those in contemporary literature. They were informers and intelligence gathers who worked for Wellington and were not always treated well.
In my book, LOVE AND WAR, my hero, Gyles Devereaux, the Earl of Halcrow is a member of the Hussar Regiment. His spymaster is George Scovell. Scovell was the chief codebreaker for the Duke of We...

New Cover for WAVING AT THE MOON

Love this new cover! WAVING AT THE MOON is a Young Adult post-apocalyptic novel coming to Eternal Press soon.



BLURB ~ WAVING AT THE MOON

After seventeen-year-old Evie's parents die in a bomb attack on their city, she and her sixteen-year-old cousin, Marcus are left to fend for themselves in their isolated, outback hotel as drought causes everything to die around them.
Just as their position becomes desperate, eighteen-year-old Joel arrives at the hotel, riding an ancient motorbike with a side...

Great review of AN IMPROPER LOVER

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Review: An Improper Lover by Maggi Andersen

An Improper Lover by Maggi Andersen

Publisher: Eternal Press
Genre: Historical Romance

Heat Rating: 1

Blurb

Everything seems very proper on the surface but murder, intrigue and lust embroil Harriett in a very different scene…

Lady Harriett Edgerton and her family visit a relative in his country mansion in Kent, England, in the early nineteenth ...

Liam - already charming the ladies

The Ideal Georgian Woman

The Ideal Woman
The feminine ideal of Georgian womanhood may best be defined as a combination of moral perfection and intellectual deficiency. She was required to be above all things a "womanly woman" meek, timid, trustful, clinging, yielding, unselfish, helpless and dependent,and robust in neither body nor mind. Conversely, she was also expected to be a thoroughly practical domestic sort of person, not educated except in how to run a domestic establishment with good sense of judgment. Her tom...

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Research for my novel, Hostage to Fortune, a romance set during the French Revolution

While researching the French Revolution for my historical romance, Hostage to Fortune, I discovered something interesting. It might be more myth than fact, but nevertheless fascinating. In 1793, the Dauphin, Louis Charles became king in the eyes of the Royalists. Did the Dauphin survive? Lady Atkyns, a Drury Lane actress and a close friend of Marie Antoinette tried first to rescue the queen, but when that lady refused to leave her children, she promised to save the Dauphin. Her later attempt ...