Jane Austen Media Reviews

The Worlds of Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester As the patroness of two online discussion lists, Janeites, for Jane Austen Fans, and the Georgette Heyer discussion list, I am just the audie...

Two Views of Napoleon

Napoleon'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 eye witness, but a French officer and aide to Napo...

Capt Gronow and Sir Harry Smith Write their Memoirs

Captain Gronow: His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life, 1810-60 By Christopher Hibbit   This is a very difficult book to review as I liked it a lot, but I still have a number of res...

Kings and Princes: Lives of the Georgian Royalty

George III: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert I did enjoy this book, Hibbert has a way of including small details of life within the larger context of of his subject which gives wonde...

Passion and Principle & The Regency Underworld

Passion 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 just how I would rate this book excellent book by Hod...

What the Butler Saw & High Society in the Regency

What 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. Wodehouse This is a lively foray into a world ...

Scholarly looks at Trafalgar and Waterloo

Trafalgar : The Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins Truly a biography of this battle - a pivotal event in European history. This seems to be the same book as the American Published one entitl...

To The Great House, Accordingly, They Went...

Althorp: The Story of an English House Charles Spencer I have to admit I probably would have only been vaguely interested in The Story of Althorp had it not been for the Diana, Princess of Wal...

Film Scripts for the Austen Movies

When the final credits roll on an Austen film, whether you’ve loved it or not, it’s often fun to find out more. What were relationships like on and off the set? Where did they film these great hous...

Effusions of Fancy Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New

Effusions of Fancy Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New by Jane Odiwe I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can hav...

A History of the Englishman's Food and An Interview with Wellington's Cook.

Your Most Obedient Servant: Cook to the Duke of Wellington by James Thornton What an odd little book! A few years ago this written interview between Lord Frederick Fitzclarence and a cook call...

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Controversial Regency Authors

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin Mary Wollstonecraft was an excessively unsympathetic character - she was a user (in modern parlance anyway), she manipulated, she was...