Posts Tagged ‘aristocracy’
Regency Christmas Gifts, by Carla Kelly
Regency Christmas Gifts, by Carla Kelly Regency Christmas Gifts is a collection of two novella-length regency romances and one short story by Carla Kelly. The Lasting Gift: Christmas approaches, and Mary Ann Poole has little to anticipate. Her daughter Beth was born just after the death in battle of her father seven years earlier, and…
Read MoreSeason’s Regency Greetings by Carla Kelly
Season’s Regency Greetings, by Carla Kelly “Let Nothing You Dismay”: In 1810 England, Cecilia Ambrose is an oddity at the Bath academy for young ladies where she teaches. Although gently raised, she is half-Egyptian, and at age twenty-eight believes she will never marry. With Christmas only days away, Cecilia has agreed to escort twelve-year-old Lucinda…
Read MoreThe Last of Lady Lansdown, by Shirley Kennedy
The Last of Lady Lansdown, by Shirley Kennedy In the dawn of the Regency era in Northern England, precious few mourn the sudden and shocking passing of the Earl of Lansdown. Certainly not Jane Elton, the young and beautiful widow whose life he made a misery. After her initial relief, Jane must contend with an…
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