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Autumn 2020 finds me in Wisconsin, still isolating or cocooning or whatever we are calling it. I am looking forward to the release soon of more of my Regencies. Two novels and a novella are pictured above and my novella for Regency Spring: Secret and Soirees is entitled "A Hero for Harriet." It's a sequel to last year's "Sarah's Summer Surprise" in the anthology Regency Summer Escape from Dreamstone Publishing. Soon, I will have another novella published in Dreamstone's Regency Christmas collection,entitled "Julie's Christmas Joy," set in one of m favorite cities, Bath.
Next to be released are the two novellas I published with Kensington, "The Muddled Matchmaters" and "The Valentine Poem."
Take a look at the ramblings on my blog (above at left) and please don't forget my other blog with Kristine Hughes Patrone & Louisa Cornell: numberonelondon.net
Take a look at the ramblings on my blog (above at left) and please don't forget my other blog with Kristine Hughes Patrone & Louisa Cornell: numberonelondon.net
I enjoy musing on what I would wear 200+ years ago. The outfit above is from La Belle Assemblee. 1814. I visualize my novella heroine Miss Harriet Ryder visiting the seaside spa of Worthing in just this ensemble. Here is the (long) description of the outfit borrowed, with permission, from the excellent website of my friend and fellow author Candice Hern, www.candicehern.com which is full of excellent information on her collection of Regency-era jewelry, scene bottles, reticules, and much more, including her fine selection of fashion prints.
“Autumnal Walking Dress: Jaconet muslin high dress, with a triple flounce of muslin embroidery round the edge, and slightly scalloped; a row of worked points surmounts the top flounce. The body is composed of jaconet muslin and letting-in lace; the former cut in broad strips and sewed full to the latter, which is about an inch in breadth; the body is made up to the throat, but has no collar : the shape is the same as last month except that the back is a little broader. Long sleeve of muslin and lace to correspond with the body. Spenceret of rose-coloured velvet of a form the most elegantly simple and tasteful that we have seen; it is very short in the waist, and tight to the shape; it is ornamented at top by a lace frill, and is cut so as to cover the bosom but to leave the neck bare. This spenceret is very much admired, and it is certainly truly elegant, but it owes its principal attraction to the corset over which it is worn, and certainly nothing was ever so well calculated to display a fine shape to advantage as the Circassian corset, which has been patronized and recommended with incredible celerity by ladies of the highest distinction, who are unanimous in declaring it to be the only corset ever introduced that has in every way answered the encomiums bestowed upon it. The superior ease, gracefulness, and elegance which it gives to the female figure, are too obvious to need a comment; while on the other hand, its beneficial effects upon the health are daily attested by ladies who rejoice in the success of an invention which has freed them from the tortures inflicted by whalebone, steel, &c. We must not omit to observe that the walking bonnet of this month, which is composed of white satin and rose-coloured velvet, and ornamented with a plume of white feathers, will certainly become general, as it is a most elegant bonnet; it is worn over a small white lace cap. Rose-coloured jane, or leather, boots, and Limerick gloves.
“The above dress was invented by Mrs. Bell, Inventress of the ladies’ Chapeau Bras, at her Magazin des Modes. No. 26 Charlotte-street, Bedford-square”
Thanks, Candice. I have searched for authentic pictures of a Circassian corset, but although there are many references when one googles the term, if there are pictures that agree on just what it was, I could not find it. I leave it to your imagination.