Black Sheep Group Read January 2017 Chapters 1-9

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Ella's Gran wrote: " My library only had an ancient copy of Lady of Quality so I booked an e-book version of it with Open Library when there were 5 people on the waiting list. Just checked and there's just 2 ahead of me now so hoping to have that before the end of the month.

It's great that GH's books are still so popular!

[Samanta]

I missed the January group read and have just now started reading the Black Sheep. I find a lot of plot similarities with Lady of quality, but am too early in the book to form an opinion on the characters.

[Lesley]

Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "Ella's Gran wrote: " My library only had an ancient copy of Lady of Quality so I booked an e-book version of it with Open Library when there were 5 people on the waiting list. Just checked and ther..."

The other e-book copy they have has 15 people on the waiting list!!

[Charlotte]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question - but I'm reading The Black Sheep at the moment and in chapter two, Fanny shows Abby some fashion plates from the 'Ladies' Home Journal'. I've done a fair bit of googling and all I can't find any Regency journal under that name - just an American magazine, which was admittedly established around 1800, but is that what GH meant? It seems rather unlikely! Can anyone shed any light?

[Critterbee❇]

On page 24 of my copy of Black Sheep, I found

"...several fashion plates from Ladies Monthly Museum"

and then I found some of the images of the fashion plates from that magazine on the National Portrait Gallery's site. The quality of the images is pretty stellar.

The full name was The Lady's Monthly Museum or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction
Here are some of the lovely plates


https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/se...

[Critterbee❇]

* There are many images of plates from other historical magazines on the site
https://www.npg.org.uk/research/fashi...

[Abigail]

What a curious thing! I wonder if the edition you have, Charlotte, is an American one? Even so, it would be very odd for an editor to "Americanize" the name of a periodical.

[Charlotte]

Very odd indeed! I've just checked my audio book and it also says Ladies' Home Journal but Ladies Monthly Museum makes much more sense - and I LOVE those plates! I've been meaning to go to see the National Portrait Gallery's Regency portraits for a while so maybe this is the encouragement I needed!