Many ladies’ magazines during the nineteenth century devoted pages to making fashion accessories for the refined Victorian gentleman – slippers, smoking caps and braces. Braces were the perfect gift for a young lady to embroider for her father or fiancé, or for a wife to create for her husband. Braces, or suspenders, were worn from … Continue reading Gentleman’s Braces or Suspenders
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Regency Era Wallpapers
Featured are wallpaper patterns and border samples from the circa 1815 Regency period. These wallpaper designs are from the Philadelphia firm of Messrs. Virchaux & Co.Wallpaper of expensive styles and artistic variety were brought to America as early as 1735. Rolls of wallpaper did not appear in America until 1790, so most designs imported before … Continue reading Regency Era Wallpapers
It’s Raining Men!
A fun video montage of your favorite men from period dramas and films such as Sense & Sensibility, Wives & Daughters, Pride & Prejudice, and Persuasion.
Website Suggestion
The Jane Austen Search Engine: click here This site was created as a prototype digital library for a school project and has no commercial purpose. The Jane Austen Digital Library is a collection of free resources on the web related to Jane Austen, her works, and her life. The main search page is intended to … Continue reading Website Suggestion
in silhouette
This beautiful fabric from Velocity Art and Design is a modern take on the fabrics that Elizabeth Darcy would have furnished Pemberly with, make it your own and live the high life.
On this day…
Aug 23, 1796 JA write to Cassandra from London, "I am once more in the Scene of Dissipation...and I begin already to find my morals corrupted."Image from A Creative Mint
See you tomorrow!
Meredith will have these for sale tomorrow at the picnic for $21. See you all tomorrow!
What Did Lucy Locket Lose?
Lucy Locket lost her pocket,Kitty Fisher found it;Nothing in it, nothing in it,But the binding round it.It has been whispered over the years that the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket was rooted in the people and places of 18th century London society. “Kitty Fisher” was the well-known British courtesan, Catherine Maria Fisher, who boasted assignations with … Continue reading What Did Lucy Locket Lose?
Georgian Mansion with a Story
A stately yellow house with a past as impressive as its façade stands in Cambridge Massachusetts. Two tiers of windows accentuate the breadth of the home, while white pilasters with scrolled capitals add verticality and ornamentation to the building. A pediment enclosing a semicircular window crowns the front of the house, and two yellow chimneys … Continue reading Georgian Mansion with a Story
webmistress at conference
CNJ-JASNA's Webmistress is at a conference this week and will not be able to fulfill her duties at this time. It is with much regret. However, she highly urges you to resort to those devices which use to fill our time, such as reading for pleasure and gently reminds us all that on August 21 … Continue reading webmistress at conference
Jane Austen Society of North America - New Jersey Region 