Articles related to "Regency Period"

Picturesque architecture, popular from the late 1700s to early 1800s, drew inspiration from several sources including landscape painters Claude Lorrain and Salvatore Rosa

Antique kitchenware made of wood, metal and ceramics has historical and monetary value. However, some items have endured as practical cookware in modern times

Visitors to Brighton England are offered a window on the western take on Oriental style in the mid-18th century - Chinoiserie - in the Chinese Whispers Exhibition.

Simplifying, for the writer, the bewildering categories of genre and sub-genre in romance fiction.

Romance novels are about happy endings. Many women love them, and no wonder. The best writers will transport a reader to a place far removed from everyday life.

Of the many free museums in London, the best known are the V. & A. and the Natural History Museum, but the Ragged School Museum and the Geffrye Museum are London's gems.

The Victorian era influenced a wide range of design disciplines such as architecture, clothing, exterior and interior decorating.

According to the Romance Writer's of America, the romance novel contains a central love story and an emotionally satisfying ending.

In the early 19th century, an upper class young debutante's future prospects for a good marriage hinged upon her reception at Almack's Assembly Rooms.

If you're thinking about writing a historical romance but having a hard time with history, you may consider writing a costume historical romance.

Drawing inspiration from Dickens' drawing room on display in the Charles Dickens House Museum in London, here is how to recreate a Victorian historic interior.

Jane Austen's Regency era heroines were genteel, but these gritty Victorian era heroines rise from the middle and lowest classes. Good books, great reading!

Necklines can vary from sweetheart to cowl necks, turtlenecks to strapless, in styles that emphasise the shoulders, decolletage or collarbone.