In my many tumbles down the research rabbit hole, I have ended up in a number of manuscripts published in the 1700s and 1800s with which I have a love-hate relationship. No small part of the hate in that love-hate relationship rests squarely upon the vexing character known as the ‘long s’.
Continue reading →With the advent of social media, letters may have found a new life though email and texts. What did letters look like in Austen’s day?
Continue reading →Before telegraphs or telephones, email or texts, Twitter or Facebook, letter writing was the only way to maintain connections with distant family and friends. During the Regency era, writing letters, reading them, and sharing the news they contained was an essential part of social life, one largely slated for the women of the household. Typically, women would write letters in the morning, before breakfast. They kept track of the letters they received and to whom … Continue reading →
