Review: I enjoyed learning a few things about the details in regency romances
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2013
This was a very logically laid out book, if a bit precious.  The narrative voice was almost condescending in its efforts to veer from a more straightforward educational treatise, to keep the reader interested, perhpas.  It only got confusing one place, when the premise shifted from 'you are a visitor to a regency era home' to 'you are the mistress of a regency era home' (giving orders in the kitchen). In the film industry this would be called a break in continuity. It wasn't a mortal sin.Interspersed with details of a middle class gentle lady's home were excerpts from Jane Austen's works, comparing characteristics.  And where the excerpts dealt with homes which were significally different from those of the imaginary home we are invited here to tour, the details did explain some of the idiosyncracies of the era as regards status and show of wealth or division of class.  Not long or tedious, this book is worth reading.