Regency Ramble

Ever since I wrote Lady of Shame, part of the Castonbury Park Series, a Regency upstairs downstairs, or Downton Abbey, I have loved visiting...

 Oh its fashion time again.  I always love this bit.  Here are a couple of delightful summer frocks. From the July 1817 La Belle Assemblee ...

My RWA conference started with the my Regency Chapter's mini conference. The Chapter is called the Beau Monde and it is a group of ...

 The kitchens always fascinate me, perhaps because I know that's likely where I would have ended up. Either that or as the wench that...

 Hope I am not boring you to death with all of these visits of mine.  I could spend hours wandering the lovely houses and I am so gratefu...

In stores now, and online everywhere. Lady Jenna Aleyne must marry well if she is to claim her lands… Only, there is a complete lack of...

I have a couple of July Fashions to share, one this week one next.  I am not being stingy, but all this takes a bit of time to get in shape,...

 Our next room at Saltram is the piece de resistance for entertaining.  The Salon. I should mention that the ballroom did not have the ch...

This is the Velvet Drawing room, redecorated as it appeared on 1770, but missing most of its original red silk velvet hangings. Quite st...

Count down is on!   You only have until June 19 to sign up for this giveaway. If you want to know more about the book you can check it o...

It really is time to look inside the house. The entrance hall is just as pretty as the outside, don't you think? This is a mid ei...

It has been a while since I posted any fashion and I thought it was time.  I have two gowns from two hundred years ago that I thought you mi...

Saltram House was originally a Tudor House but the Parker family remodelled into a Palladian mansion through the latter half of the 18th c...

We started in the stable block.  Horses were so important at this time, so I always like to take a peek inside and here we discovered som...