Category Archives: Jane Austen’s Dragons
What was a market town?
This morning I sat down and wrote out my grocery list, and made a couple of notes of which stores I would need to visit to acquire what the coming week would require. What would that chore have looked like in the Regency Era?
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During the 18th and early 19th century in Britain, smuggling was a huge enterprise. Riding officers became one element in the government’s arsenal against smuggling.
Continue reading →What is a Buttercross
Now that I’ve finished posting The Buttercross Dragon, one last question remains to address: What exactly is a buttercross in the first place?
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