The Geffrye Museum features recreated living rooms from 1600 to the present day. The most interesting part was seeing the evolution—everything in the rooms became more refined, more colorful, more decorated, and more comfortable (or so it seemed). And, as my friend noted, people accumulated and displayed much more junk.
They had a Regency Era style [...]
My friend Sara said that Brighton Pavilion was one of the best things we’ve seen on our trip so far. I have to agree. It certainly isn’t the typical Palace tour (and we’ve gone on so many by now…)
The pavilion was the Prince Regent’s pleasure palace. It was built in the early 1800’s and decorated [...]
In the course of my research I’ve found some things that are so outrageously fabulous that I burst out laughing in the library. For example, the title page of “The Monk, A Romance.”
I decided to read this to 1) see how it compared to my novel, The Rogue and The Rival, also set in an [...]
Of all the historic houses I’ve visited, Spencer House is one of the most beautiful. It’s also got the best story to go with it—a love match! A secret wedding! One could easily imagine characters from a romance novel living in a house like this.
The house was begun in 1756 by the first Earl Spencer. [...]
The Romantic Novelist Association is England’s equivalent of RWA. I was lucky to be able to spend a day at their annual conference. The main difference is that American women seem to be a bit louder and bawdier, otherwise it was exactly like RWA conferences—lots of workshops, goody bags, and meeting a ton of other [...]
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