Sentimental Georgian Jewelry
Jane Austen’s letters are filled with her observations on fashion, and this includes jewelry. In her letter to Cassandra from May 26-27,...
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Excessively Diverted
Jul 21
A toi et moi ring in the regency
I usually feature a piece of Georgian jewelry in my full-length Austenesque novels. I love the sentimentality and bold gems popular in...
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Jun 2
Pearl Jewelry in the Regency Era
I’m a fan of Georgian era jewelry and work a piece into most of my novels. When I decided to write a book about Eleanor Tilney, the decision
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Jan 29, 2023
Coral Jewelry in the Regency Era
Have you ever looked at nineteenth century portraits and noticed all of the coral jewelry? After you’ve looked through a few dozen...
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Jun 12, 2022
Mourning Jewelry: creepy or cool?
I feature a piece of jewelry in every full-length Regency novel I write. Usually, jewelry is associated with glamor and wealth, or is a...
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Jun 13, 2021
Paste or Real Regency Jewelry? It doesn't matter!
If you hear "paste jewelry", do you think ugly knockoff or, worse, Elmer's glue? Paste jewelry was popular among Georgian society and was...
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May 9, 2021
From my personal collection
For those of you who follow me on social media, you know that I post weekly about Georgian- era jewelry. There's even a piece of jewelry...
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Nov 21, 2020
I Just Wanted to Talk About Earrings!
I thought this blog post would be about cute earrings. I’d share more detail and pictures than I can in a #GeorgianJewelry tweet or FB...
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Aug 7, 2020
Regency Lover's Eye Jewelry
Eye miniatures were a fad in Georgian England for a short time around the turn of the 19th century. They were popularized by the Prince...
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Jun 17, 2020
Witch's heart jewelry: Scottish highlands, London society, and indigenous people of North America
Georgian jewelry was often sentimental and heart brooches were popular gifts. One style was an open heart brooch called a witch’s heart.
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Jun 6, 2020
Georgian Posy Rings
Simple and sentimental, posy rings are a gold band with a short inscription inside the band.
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Mar 7, 2020
Sleeve buttons and the sharp-dressed Regency man
Who doesn’t love jewelry… and a sharp-dressed man? We tend to think of Regency-era women decked out in garnets, topazes, and emeralds,...
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