Potpourri
Fave Websites
Reader Message Boards (all the ones I go to, anyway)
- Avon Ladies (now called Avon Authors) Board
- Rebel Romantica (there's a reason this is called Rebel Romantica. These ladies are WILD! Oh, and they have great pictures of hunks, too)
- Romantic Times Reader Boards
Fun Links for Regency Readers:
- Prints George (just what it says: prints from the Regency and Georgian periods)
- Rakehell (reviews, interviews, all kinds of stuff)
- The Republic of Pemberley (for all things Jane Austen)
- The Regency Page (site listing nothing but regency books)
- Regency Reader's Site Map (all kinds of regency lovers sites listed)
- The Regency Lovers Cafe (reviews, books, interviews, info)
Assorted Links from My Monthly Rave:
- Domestic Medicine by William Buchan (1785 edition).
- Want to know what Georgian Londoners were concerned about? How they cured "intemperance" and "malignant quinsey" and a number of other medical disorders, including the same old ones we complain about? Then you've got to check out this site. It contains the full text of a medical manual from 1785, and the manual is chock full of such gems as "I know people who never fail to have a sore throat if they sit even but a short time in a room that has been lately washed." Watch out for those damp rooms! But you will be surprised to find lots of good sense in this manual, and not as much quackery as you'd expect of a 200-year-old medical manual. Fascinating reading!
- William Goodwin's Diaries
- The fascinating diaries of a surgeon who lived during the Georgian and Regency periods. He makes notes on agriculture, news, smuggling… all sorts of things. It's great stuff if you want to peek right into the period through a man's perspective. Or if you're a writer and you want to know the price of wheat in Suffolk in 1805.
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
- How cool is this? You can actually go look at old court cases. And let me tell you, there are some strange court cases here. The site also has lots of information about crime and punishment in England.
- Leigh's New Picture of London
- This month I stumbled across a fabulous regency site. The above, for those of you insane like me, is the complete text of a guide to London from 1819 that describes EVERYTHING—the system of police and public buildings, etc.—and includes an index of streets, bankers, booksellers…it's amazing. If you're interested in the Regency period, check it out!
- We Really Dig Romance Novels Links Page
- For those of you who love cover art and models, you have to check this out. I stumbled across it the other night. It has links to more artists and models than you can imagine.