Another busy month! Several giveaways and free books for you, but first: A secret identities, forbidden love, opposites attract romance from a New York Times bestselling author: Why seduce a duke the normal way, when you can accidentally kidnap one in an elaborately planned heist? I’m so excited for THE DUKE HEIST!! (ICYMI: My reaction…
Today, I’m thrilled to have Susana Ellis here on the blog, sharing a fabulous historical tidbit with us! A Masquerade at Vauxhall Gardens On 26 August 1812 at Vauxhall Gardens was held an elaborate masquerade in honor of the military victories on the Peninsula. Featured at this event was a spectacular transparency of a Chinese…
Today, we have Anna D. Allen here on the blog, sharing a humorous historical tidbit with us! Arabella Churchill’s Sensuous Legs My sister’s into the Restoration period, when Charles II returned to Britain after decades of Puritan rule. Not my cup of tea. Can’t get past the wigs. Plus the Stuarts never seem like the…
At what is our heroine seated? Perhaps a single-drawer painted table and ~1770 Cabriolet chair:
So you’ve got portraits or landscapes or paintings of some flavor hanging in your hero or heroine’s 18th century or Regency England house. How might the frames be hung? Here’s one way:
Wooden desk (secretary) handcrafted ~1745. (Technically: Paris, France. Louis XV) This piece of furniture was in the hotel Lebas de Courmant.
Wooden desk (secretary) handcrafted ~1755. (Technically: Paris, France. Louis XV)
Technically, made in Paris ~1730, circa Louis XV. As seen in the Musee Carnavalet:
Perhaps your heroine’s house in Regency England might have a fireplace with a clock, mirror, and/or mantle like this: (as seen at Musee Carnavalet)
Miscellaneous Regency-era Chairs. The red one is a 1750 marquise chair. (Technically: Paris, France. ~1750 Louis XV)
