Author: Nancy Butler
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451201676
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five award-winning authors--Nancy Butler, Diane Farr, Allison Lane, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger--celebrate Christmas with five love stories set in Regency England on the eve of the holiday, a time for falling in love.
A Jane Austen Christmas
Author: Maria Grace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692332337
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Many Christmas traditions and images of 'old fashioned' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations. Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities. How odd? Families rarely decorated Christmas trees. Festivities centered on socializing instead of gift-giving. Festivities focused on adults, with children largely consigned to the nursery. Holiday events, including balls, parties, dinners, and even weddings celebrations, started a week before Advent and extended all the way through to Twelfth Night in January. Take a step into history with Maria Grace as she explores the traditions, celebrations, games and foods that made up Christmastide in Jane Austen's era. Packed with information and rich with detail from period authors, Maria Grace transports the reader to a longed-for old fashioned Christmas. Non-fiction
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692332337
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Many Christmas traditions and images of 'old fashioned' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations. Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities. How odd? Families rarely decorated Christmas trees. Festivities centered on socializing instead of gift-giving. Festivities focused on adults, with children largely consigned to the nursery. Holiday events, including balls, parties, dinners, and even weddings celebrations, started a week before Advent and extended all the way through to Twelfth Night in January. Take a step into history with Maria Grace as she explores the traditions, celebrations, games and foods that made up Christmastide in Jane Austen's era. Packed with information and rich with detail from period authors, Maria Grace transports the reader to a longed-for old fashioned Christmas. Non-fiction
Regency Christmas Eve
Author: Nancy Butler
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451201676
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five award-winning authors--Nancy Butler, Diane Farr, Allison Lane, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger--celebrate Christmas with five love stories set in Regency England on the eve of the holiday, a time for falling in love.
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451201676
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five award-winning authors--Nancy Butler, Diane Farr, Allison Lane, Edith Layton, and Barbara Metzger--celebrate Christmas with five love stories set in Regency England on the eve of the holiday, a time for falling in love.
On Hosting Your Regency-Era Christmas Party: A Companion to Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
Author: Soho Press
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616956402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
This introduction to the Regency-era Christmas offers a few helpful tips for celebrating your holiday like Jane Austen! The latest installment in Stephanie Barron’s richly historical Jane Austen mystery series takes place over the twelve days of Christmas, a Regency-era tradition unlike the holiday we celebrate today. In the pages of this free companion guide to the novel, you’ll find authentic ways to celebrate your own Georgian Christmas—from decorations to recipes to parlor games—for full immersion into the world of our heroine. About Jane Austen and the Twelve Days of Christmas: On Christmas Eve of 1814, we find the Regency era’s most beloved author on holiday at the Vyne, the gorgeous estate of the prominent Chute household, with family and friends. As they prepare for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, the guests are all in a celebratory mood—until one of the Yuletide revelers dies in a riding accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, can Jane discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616956402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
This introduction to the Regency-era Christmas offers a few helpful tips for celebrating your holiday like Jane Austen! The latest installment in Stephanie Barron’s richly historical Jane Austen mystery series takes place over the twelve days of Christmas, a Regency-era tradition unlike the holiday we celebrate today. In the pages of this free companion guide to the novel, you’ll find authentic ways to celebrate your own Georgian Christmas—from decorations to recipes to parlor games—for full immersion into the world of our heroine. About Jane Austen and the Twelve Days of Christmas: On Christmas Eve of 1814, we find the Regency era’s most beloved author on holiday at the Vyne, the gorgeous estate of the prominent Chute household, with family and friends. As they prepare for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, the guests are all in a celebratory mood—until one of the Yuletide revelers dies in a riding accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, can Jane discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
A Regency Christmas Eve
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Season for Surrender
Author: Theresa Romain
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1420131338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
When a proper lady attends a rakish lord's holiday party, the fun and games lead to a gamble for love in a “charming Christmas Regency confection” (Publishers Weekly). Alexander Edgware, Lord Xavier, has quite a reputation for daring, wagering, and delightful wickedness. But the wager before him is hardly his preferred sport: Xavier must persuade a proper young lady to attend his famously naughty Christmas extravaganza—and stay the full, ruinous two weeks. Worse, the lady is Louisa Oliver, a doe-eyed bookworm Xavier finds quite charming. Unable to refuse the challenge, he will simply have to act as Miss Oliver's protector . . . Louisa knows her chance for a husband has passed. But she refuses to retire into spinsterhood without enjoying a few grand adventures. When Lord Xavier's invitation arrives, Louisa is more intrigued than insulted. And once inside the rogues' gallery, she just may teach her gentlemen friends a thing or two about daring . . .
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1420131338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
When a proper lady attends a rakish lord's holiday party, the fun and games lead to a gamble for love in a “charming Christmas Regency confection” (Publishers Weekly). Alexander Edgware, Lord Xavier, has quite a reputation for daring, wagering, and delightful wickedness. But the wager before him is hardly his preferred sport: Xavier must persuade a proper young lady to attend his famously naughty Christmas extravaganza—and stay the full, ruinous two weeks. Worse, the lady is Louisa Oliver, a doe-eyed bookworm Xavier finds quite charming. Unable to refuse the challenge, he will simply have to act as Miss Oliver's protector . . . Louisa knows her chance for a husband has passed. But she refuses to retire into spinsterhood without enjoying a few grand adventures. When Lord Xavier's invitation arrives, Louisa is more intrigued than insulted. And once inside the rogues' gallery, she just may teach her gentlemen friends a thing or two about daring . . .
The Last King of America
Author: Andrew Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
The Dark Days Deceit
Author: Alison Goodman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101592060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The thrilling, genre-bending conclusion to Lady Helen's demon-hunting adventures, set in the glittering Regency world. Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously charismatic Lord Carlston have learned they are a dyad, bonded in blood, and only they are strong enough to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos. But the heinous death-soaked Ligatus Helen has absorbed is tearing a rift in her mind. Its power, if unleashed, will annihilate both Helen and Carlston unless they can find a way to harness its ghastly force and defeat their enemy. In the final book of the trilogy that began with The Dark Days Club and continued with The Dark Days Pact, the intrepid Lady Helen's story hurtles to a shocking conclusion full of action, heartbreak, and betrayal.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101592060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The thrilling, genre-bending conclusion to Lady Helen's demon-hunting adventures, set in the glittering Regency world. Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously charismatic Lord Carlston have learned they are a dyad, bonded in blood, and only they are strong enough to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos. But the heinous death-soaked Ligatus Helen has absorbed is tearing a rift in her mind. Its power, if unleashed, will annihilate both Helen and Carlston unless they can find a way to harness its ghastly force and defeat their enemy. In the final book of the trilogy that began with The Dark Days Club and continued with The Dark Days Pact, the intrepid Lady Helen's story hurtles to a shocking conclusion full of action, heartbreak, and betrayal.
Easy Conquest
Author: Sandra Heath
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451204486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Emily Fairfield knows she should accept wealthy Sir Warrender's proposal. But she can't stop dreaming about a certain mysterious, penniless drifter who has wandered into her life -- and run off with her heart...
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451204486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Emily Fairfield knows she should accept wealthy Sir Warrender's proposal. But she can't stop dreaming about a certain mysterious, penniless drifter who has wandered into her life -- and run off with her heart...
Harlequin Historical September 2024 - Box Set 1 of 2
Author: Carla Kelly
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369758471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
This boxset includes: A NAVAL SURGEON TO FIGHT FOR by Carla Kelly (Regency) As her snobbish aunt’s companion, penniless vicar’s daughter Jerusha Langley is sent to take a donation to the local naval hospital. There she meets dashing surgeon Jamie Wilson and embarks on a secret mission—sneaking out to help him care for injured sailors! With his life in peril fighting Napoleon, Jamie has never considered taking a wife, yet he’s impressed by Jerusha’s nursing ability—and beauty inside and out. Jamie knows she’s risking a scandal by helping him. Can he risk his heart and save her reputation with a marriage offer? CAPTIVATED BY HIS CONVENIENT DUCHESS by Lauri Robinson A The Redford Dukedom story (Victorian) In an accident that killed her parents, Lady Anita was left with a permanent leg injury, and at the mercy of her loathsome uncle. Bartering her to the Duke of Redford is a new low, so when the duke suggests a convenient marriage, she seizes the chance to escape. Myles is determined his new wife won’t distract him from his ducal duties, but the woman who arrives at his estate is not the meek bride he expects! Society may have overlooked her, but now his spirited, determined duchess is all Myles can see! ACCIDENTAL COURTSHIP WITH THE EARL by Samantha Hastings (Regency) Mark, the Earl of Inverness, escapes to London to avoid his mother’s matchmaking, and the wounds of war that continue to haunt him. So, when a macaw flies into his garden, he’s intrigued by his new neighbor following behind…and the dazzling woman proves just the distraction he needs! Lady Helen Stringham reluctantly agreed to a Season in exchange for becoming conveniently engaged to her childhood friend when she returns home. But after she encounters broodingly handsome Mark, who shares her passion for animals, she’s discovering what real attraction is… Just who should she be marrying?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369758471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
This boxset includes: A NAVAL SURGEON TO FIGHT FOR by Carla Kelly (Regency) As her snobbish aunt’s companion, penniless vicar’s daughter Jerusha Langley is sent to take a donation to the local naval hospital. There she meets dashing surgeon Jamie Wilson and embarks on a secret mission—sneaking out to help him care for injured sailors! With his life in peril fighting Napoleon, Jamie has never considered taking a wife, yet he’s impressed by Jerusha’s nursing ability—and beauty inside and out. Jamie knows she’s risking a scandal by helping him. Can he risk his heart and save her reputation with a marriage offer? CAPTIVATED BY HIS CONVENIENT DUCHESS by Lauri Robinson A The Redford Dukedom story (Victorian) In an accident that killed her parents, Lady Anita was left with a permanent leg injury, and at the mercy of her loathsome uncle. Bartering her to the Duke of Redford is a new low, so when the duke suggests a convenient marriage, she seizes the chance to escape. Myles is determined his new wife won’t distract him from his ducal duties, but the woman who arrives at his estate is not the meek bride he expects! Society may have overlooked her, but now his spirited, determined duchess is all Myles can see! ACCIDENTAL COURTSHIP WITH THE EARL by Samantha Hastings (Regency) Mark, the Earl of Inverness, escapes to London to avoid his mother’s matchmaking, and the wounds of war that continue to haunt him. So, when a macaw flies into his garden, he’s intrigued by his new neighbor following behind…and the dazzling woman proves just the distraction he needs! Lady Helen Stringham reluctantly agreed to a Season in exchange for becoming conveniently engaged to her childhood friend when she returns home. But after she encounters broodingly handsome Mark, who shares her passion for animals, she’s discovering what real attraction is… Just who should she be marrying?
The Traitor's Daughter
Author: Elizabeth Powell
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780451203496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Amanda Tremayne's father was a well-respected naval officer, wrongly accused of treason and executed. Before his death, he charged his only daughter to clear his name and expose the real traitor. Setting out to prove her father's innocence, she stumbles across the handsome Captain Sir Jonathan Everly--who may be the very man who sentenced her father to death.
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780451203496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Amanda Tremayne's father was a well-respected naval officer, wrongly accused of treason and executed. Before his death, he charged his only daughter to clear his name and expose the real traitor. Setting out to prove her father's innocence, she stumbles across the handsome Captain Sir Jonathan Everly--who may be the very man who sentenced her father to death.