To the person who sent me the “Mr. Darcy proposal scarf” from Etsy, thank you. It is cozy. I’ve never received wearable fan mail before. I found the etsy shop that it comes from, but am resisting the urge to email the shop owner and ask who sent it. My feeling is that if one
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In Shades of Milk and Honey, when Jane first sees the professional glamourist, Mr. Vincent, she describes him as, “Tall, and very broad of chest. His hair was chestnut and curled about his head like Bacon’s portrait of Jean- Baptiste Isabey.” In Glamour in Glass, we see him again. His brown curls were tousled in the fashionable wind- swept
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Hey, there’s a quiz about Shades of Milk and Honey over at Goodreads. How well do you remember the book? It’s only ten questions long! Take the Shades of Milk and Honey quiz.
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Animals and plants, round two! We begin this episode with examples where we think people did their flora and fauna wrong, or poorly, or at least in ways we can poke easy holes in. Our examples include: Pitch Black Twilight Avatar And then we get tired of negative examples, and talk about The Mote in
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Today’s visual teaser for Glamour in Glass is another room in Carlton House. After the overt glamour of the ballroom, the Blue Room seemed positively staid, though it was appointed in the best manner. The walls were covered in blue damask, which matched the upholstery. Gilt frames bordered the walls, with cleverly rendered oysters on
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My flight back from Chattanooga was without incident. Whew. Now, someone commented that they couldn’t believe that I had a flawless trip, given my #marygoround issues with travel. To which I must point out that on the way to Chattanooga, the airline lost my luggage and that my trip home was delayed by a week
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When I was researching the Prince Regent’s set, I ran across Sir Lumley St. George Skeffington who went by the nickname “Skiffy.” Skiffy How could I not use him? Skiffy was a baronet and a playwright who had some success with his play “The Sleeping Beauty” but was cheifly known for being a dandy. The
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This is one of my favorite dresses in the Glamourist Histories, so I wanted to show it to you. It appears in Shades of Milk and Honey and belongs to Miss Dunkirk. She offered Miss Dunkirk her arm and led her to a bolt of white lawn, the fabric most appropriate to a debutante. Then Jane suggested
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I spent the day at Grandma’s today and we got to talking about her mother. She told me stories I hadn’t heard about her first job, and then about her housekeeper who lived in disguise… No. Really. EDITED TO ADD: I got Grandma to talk more about her housekeeper. She had remembered that it had
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I’ll tell you a secret. I tend to give characters that I’m fond of things that I covet. Vincent’s writing desk is one of these items. Here’s how it appears in Glamour in Glass When in transit, it folded neatly in half to present an unassuming box. Once opened, it contained a comfortable sloped surface,
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It is always a bit unnerving to use real historical figures in fiction, especially someone as well-known as The Prince Regent. Because the Regency period is named after him, it is easy to think that he was an admirable figure in the same way that Queen Victoria was. Alas… He was regarded as self-indulgent, extravagant,
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I do so love Fred Astaire. The dance starts at 1:56 so jump ahead to that. Now… if you want to see how he did that.
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For Christmas, I got a box. I did not know what was in the box, but it was from my parents and Rob’s parents, so I knew it was likely to be nifty. It is beautiful and has a inlay of ivory on the cover. Rob cautioned me that the box was delicate to open.
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Jim Hines makes a ton of intelligent posts and this is one that I think everyone should read. He talks about women and the way they are posed in fantasy cover art. That’s not quite accurate… He poses as women on fantasy covers. Insight and hilarity ensue. A while back, we had a discussion on the
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Today’s teaser for Glamour in Glass is a scenic location. The Carlton House Red drawing room, which appears in Chapter 1. As the Prince Regent led her out of the Red Room, Jane felt all the eyes of those assembled fall upon her, and under their gaze the unequal nature of her station magnified. The Carlton House was
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