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Aleksandra U. Elnæs – Digressions & Miscellany
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Author: Aleksandra U. Elnæs. Go thou to Rome, – at once the paradise, the grave, the city, and the wilderness. September 11, 2016. September 11, 2016. By Aleksandra U. Elnæs. Where’s the Poet! Show him, show him, muses nine, that I might know him! In Rome, at the foot of the Spanish Steps, lies the Keats-Shelley House Museum. Museum dedicated to the Romantics, mainly John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley. While living in London I often visited Wentworth Place. The exterior of the ...
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Dress Like A Georgian Day 2013: A Ramble in St. James’s Park – Digressions & Miscellany
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Dress Like A Georgian Day 2013: A Ramble in St. James’s Park. July 5, 2015. August 31, 2016. By Aleksandra U. Elnæs. Yesterday was Dress Like A Georgian Day and as I didn’t participate this year I thought I would write a post about the picnic I attended in St. James’s Park in 2013. Hosted by Kitty Pridden and Rose Deacon of Bramfoy’s Purveyors of Living History. I had slept in rag curls and attempted 1790s style hair, as opposed to the more simplistic, 1810s styles I usually do for reenactments. Address ...
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Regency Costume 101
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Ten days in Bath celebrating Jane Austen. Guinness World Record Attempt. Subscribe for email updates. This is not a detailed history of Regency Fashion but merely a guide to help with your Festival Costuming needs. See below for details of where to buy or hire. Regency dresses are characterised by their Empire Line and are a marked contrast to the dresses of the mid eighteenth century with their panniered hips! Ankle boots or ballet pumps (pumps only for Balls). A bonnet/turban/other kind of Regency hat.
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Laughing With Lizzie: Interview with Beth Deitchman - with giveaway!
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Review and Giveaway Policy. Thursday, November 20, 2014. Interview with Beth Deitchman - with giveaway! Today I welcome the lovely Beth Deitchman to my blog, and I have asked her a few questions about her books, particularly her latest release, Margaret Dashwood and the Enchanted Atlas. I am really enjoying her magical series, having loved Mary Bennet and the Bloomsbury Coven (see my review here! Thank you, Sophie! I've enjoyed answering your questions. And I sought to right that wrong. Oh my, that is a ...
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Laughing With Lizzie: August 2015
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Review and Giveaway Policy. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Jane Austen Regency Week 2015. So I am late, just as I was with Bath, with my post about Jane Austen Regency Week. I just haven't seemed to have time to sit down and write up about my two weekends there properly! Although, I know there were hundreds of photos flying around Facebook at the time, so hopefully you've forgotten all about them and won't mind reading about the week and seeing the photos all over again! How I love antique books! We didn't ar...
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Laughing With Lizzie: Jane Austen Regency Week 2015
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Review and Giveaway Policy. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Jane Austen Regency Week 2015. So I am late, just as I was with Bath, with my post about Jane Austen Regency Week. I just haven't seemed to have time to sit down and write up about my two weekends there properly! Although, I know there were hundreds of photos flying around Facebook at the time, so hopefully you've forgotten all about them and won't mind reading about the week and seeing the photos all over again! How I love antique books! We didn't ar...
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Digressions | Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked. | Page 2
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Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked. Like a million times, Captain Cook. Aleksandra U. Elnæs. If you are currently despairing or feeling annoyed about Valentine’s Day, try putting it into perspective; at least you are not being stabbed to death as Captain Cook was, 234 years ago today. Now go read the eminent Kate Beaton’s comic,. The Death of James Cook. On a more serious note, here’s a lovely Valentine’s card, c.1822, from The British Postal Museum and Archive. To Hymens gallant choir. A few...
