Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson For those who enjoy the Regency period and life of George IV, this is one o...
Read moreThe Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine by Roy Porter I decided, given the variation in literature available, to read and review three boo...
Read moreThe Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson Mary Broad had a brief moment of celebrity, and this is probably one of the only reasons we know...
Read moreBritish Military Spectacle : From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea By Scott Hughs Myerly It was only after I had read some way into this ...
Read moreGeorgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester As the patroness of two online discussion lists, Janeites, for Jane Austen Fans, and the Ge...
Read moreNapoleon's Russian Campaign by Count Phillipe-Paul de Segur This is a raw account of Napoleon's Russian 1812 Russian Campaign from not just an ...
Read moreCaptain Gronow: His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life, 1810-60 By Christopher Hibbit This is a very difficult book to review as ...
Read moreGeorge III: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert I did enjoy this book, Hibbert has a way of including small details of life within the la...
Read morePassion and Principle: The Loves and Lives of Regency Women by Jane Aiken Hodge There were three issues at stake when I tried to figure out jus...
Read moreThe Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen By Edward Copeland & Juliet McMaster I have to admit from the outset here, that I am a confirmed Jane...
Read moreWhat the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem by E. S. Turner A book which goes on a special shelf in my library P.G...
Read moreTrafalgar : The Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins Truly a biography of this battle - a pivotal event in European history. This seems to be ...
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