Belle, Book, and Candle

  An example of Victorian mourning jewelry featuring woven hair. Somewhere in the collection of jewelry passed down to me from my g...

I confess, I cheated a bit in my reading of  The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (2013). This biography by Paula Byrne explores...

I definitely need to get to the library today. I have two books on hold (why do they all seem to become available at the same time?...

If you can bear one more Jane Austen post, then read on.  I stumbled across this  article  by Kate Hutchings in which she takes a lo...