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Two masks of Richard David James AKA Aphex Twin at the opening of new exhibition "Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers" at The Design Museum on July 28, 2020 in London, England.

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Useful Regency England facts I learned by reading annotated editions of Austen novels

During the early part of the covid pandemic I read/re-read all of the novels Jane Austen completed during her life in the editions annotated by David M. Shapard. Of everything I learned, the following were useful enough for understanding her work that they really stuck with me. (That said, I may have forgotten others that were at least as useful!)

from morning to supper

In Austen’s time and for some time afterward, “morning” lasted until the hour when people ate supper. So if you read in an Austen novel that a character did something “all morning,” they did that thing until the early evening. It's a small thing in a way, but this information really changes some significant moments in her novels.

purposeful gossip

Before reading Austen with Shapard's annotations, I always wondered how all the characters in her novels seemed to know the (more or less) exact yearly income of the single men they encountered, despite living in a time when it would have been utterly impolite to discuss these things openly. Shapard gave me the answer: servant gossip. I don't mean random idle chitchat, either. I mean that it could be a tacit (or perhaps even acknowledged) part of a servant's job description to broadcast important facts about their employer to the necessary people and/or to receive such information and pass it along to their employer.

the four percents

Speaking of income, I also wondered what it meant that these idle rich gentlemen received a certain amount of money per year. These figures couldn't be salaries since they didn't have jobs. I could imagine them being based on the proceeds they received from their estates being farmed and so forth, but some prominent Austen characters are said to have a certain amount per year when we know they don't own an estate. (For example, the whole reason the Bennet family meets Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy is that Bingley rents an estate in their neighborhood, Netherfield, while he looks for a suitable one to purchase.)

What else could those figures be based on? Again, Shapard came through. Apparently these numbers did sometimes represent the expected proceeds of an estate, in whole or in part. But the sort of default option was for them to represent dividends that a person received from government bonds. The most widely-used type of government bond in England at this time were permanent bonds that didn't mature on a certain year or whatever, but just released dividends indefinitely. (They're sometimes referred to in Austen's novels as "four percents," though that wasn't always the exact percentage of the principal that holder received in dividends.) So it's almost certain that a man like Bingley had a large sum of money invested in bonds in his name and the yearly amount Mrs. Bennet learned was based on how much money those bonds paid in dividends per year.

windows and manservants

Some lines from certain novels made more sense to me after learning about some specific tax policies of the time that Shapard outlined. Again, P&P references are the ones that come to mind most readily for me. Remember when Lady Catherine was fussing about Elizabeth traveling home from Kent without an older person or a man along? Elizabeth told her that her uncle was sending a manservant to be present when they changed horses and Lady Catherine was pleasantly surprised that he had one. This is probably because there was a special tax households had to pay based on the number of manservants they employed (no such tax applied to women servants). Lady Catherine probably knew that Elizabeth's uncle was in trade, so she may not have expected him to be able to afford a manservant, including the cost of the manservant tax.

At another point, the number of windows in Lady Catherine's house is remarked on as if it’s a big deal. This isn't just because they looked nice, or were expensive to source materials for and install. There was also a tax on windows, based on the number of windows in one's home. If I remember correctly, this wasn't because of any intrinsic quality of windows or anything, but because the more windows a house had, the more likely it was to be large and grand.

servants and dresses

Have you ever thought it was weird that Austen characters who were supposed to be down on their luck financially still had a bunch of servants? I mean, I always chalked it up to the fact that everything is relative, so going from having a whole staff of servants to just a few would have been a big, scary change. But sometimes these characters really were stressed about money in other respects. Take the Dashwoods, for example. Marianne fretted about not having enough dresses to make certain that Willoughby doesn't see her in the same one twice, because she can't afford to buy a new one anytime soon. But the Dashwoods still have three servants (and one of them is even a man!).

The reason for this is the fact that compared to the present day, in Austen's time the cost of goods was much higher and the cost of labor was much lower. Think about it this way: if you could hire someone to do your housework for a week, maybe even a month, for the amount you'd pay for a fast-fashion dress, but to get a new dress you had to pay bespoke prices, you'd be more likely to do the former and less likely to do the latter. So much financial stuff in Austen novels makes more sense if you keep this in mind, so Shapard explains it at least once per novel.

engagement rules

There were conventions about engagements and how/whether they could be broken off that are hinted at or implied at times in Austen's work but not explicitly stated, assumably because readers would've been assumed to know them already. These help to explain some important plot points in a few of her books.

It was a man's role to propose marriage, of course. This is still a pretty prevalent convention today, so that's hardly surprising. But in Regency England, it wasn't socially acceptable for a man to break off an engagement once it was formed. So if he regretted making a proposal, he was out of luck—unless he was OK with being a total pariah. If I remember correctly, there may have been potential legal consequences as well. Men also internalized the idea that for a man to break off an engagement was dishonorable, so men who held themselves to high standards would have felt shame at the prospect. Women, on the other hand, were allowed to break off an engagement. If a woman were to do this repeatedly, people would start to look at her askance, but otherwise she'd be fine socially, and even a scrupulous woman wouldn't be likely to reproach herself about doing it unless there was something specifically sketchy about it.

Some specific examples of how this plays out:

This is why Edward Ferrars can't cut ties with Lucy Steele, but she dumps him easily when the chance to marry his brother comes along. (Lucy wouldn't have scruples about honor, but she cares about other people's opinions.)

It's also the reason Captain Wentworth sticks around while Louisa Musgrove is convalescing. While he hadn't proposed, others had decided they were practically engaged because of how openly he had seemed to prefer her. This was almost as binding, socially, as a real engagement. He still kept his distance, though, in the hope that she'd lose interest in him. Thankfully, it worked.

At the same time, not only is it socially OK that Anne broke off her first engagement with Wentworth, she concludes after they reconcile that she acted rightly under the circumstances.

When Frank Churchill quarrels with Jane Fairfax, he hurts her with his comments about men who regret their engagements during the Box Hill fiasco. He may just have been trying to hurt her, but one could argue that his comments were intended to bait her into breaking off the engagement herself.

Jane may have viewed it that way, which would be one more reason for her to break up with him (as she does, completely within her rights, until they reconcile).

That's everything that came to mind for the moment, but if I think of any good additions to this, I'll reblog with them. Others are encouraged to do the same. I checked a few things online as I was writing but a lot of this is from memory, especially the plot details. So apologies if I flubbed something, and feel free to let me know.

I strongly recommend reading the novels with Shapard's annotations, by the way! His notes are thorough and accessible and the details they explain contributed a lot, even more than I expected, to my understanding of the books.

(tagging @vital-information as discussed—this took forever because I wrote most of it, tumblr ate it, and then I was too annoyed to re-write it for a while, but here it finally is!)

[bethanydelleman]

Hello there, friend! Firstly, I just wanted to say that I love coming by your answers to asks on the P&P tag. (All hilarious and so informative). Getting back into the groove of revisiting Austen (after being entrenched in WW2 history), and I'm sure this has been asked of you before, but would you have any book recommendations that can help jump me off on the historiography of Austen's works or perhaps some of your fave covering the early 17th century?

So sorry, I know I can definitely Google this, but I really just love reading through your analysis of things and would love to peek into the things you read to supplement your Austen obsession! <3 Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. <3

Hi and thank you!

I have read some specifically Jane Austen history books and some more general ones, here they are:

Jane Austen and the Navy by Brian Southam (published by the National Maritime Museum). I purchased this book because I was writing fan fiction about Captain Wentworth. The first half covers naval history and the real life Austen family (two brothers became admirals), the second half explores all naval references in Jane Austen's novels.

Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen's England by Brenda S. Cox (here are some posts from it) This is an independently published and researched book that gives an overview of the Church of England (primarily) during Austen's lifetime. It explains a lot of what is found in the novels around clergymen.

The Annotated Pride & Prejudice by David M. Shapard - Not the best literature analysis, but I find they have good history notes. I only own one because they are expensive.

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool - this one is a bit surface-level, but it did have some very good information about the law

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer (a post) - I found this very informative and it gets into spicy bits, which as a fan fiction writer I loved and needed.

Also, this amazing thesis about economics and Jane Austen:

“ABOVE VULGAR ECONOMY:” JANE AUSTEN AND MONEY by Sheryl Bonar Craig, which you can find here. Post about it. Learn within that Hertfordshire (Elizabeth Bennet) was the poorest shire in Austen's time and Derbyshire (Mr. Darcy) was the richest! But honestly, so much good information and very well sourced.

For literary analysis, the best one (in my opinion) is: What Matters in Jane Austen: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan. I disagree with him on one or two points (he's very anti-Mary Crawford), but in general this is an amazing book and gives a lot of historical context as well

To avoid

As for online articles, I always try to approach things like a scientist. I look for citations because a lot of people write history references for fan fiction without any sources. So reader be aware!

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Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Tagged by @captainqster & @shamelessdisplay (ty ty!)

Tagging @confusedtia @thefrostflower @allyennah @tallbluelady @spotofmummery @stalwart-spirit @kaijubluedreams @sunnythanalan @biff-adventurer @lal-ffxiv @uldahstreetrat @alannah-corvaine

Three ships I like: Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori (Pacific Rim), Fitzwilliam Darcy/Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone, because I haven't read the books yet)

First ship ever: Uh... I think it was Tohru/Kyo from Fruit Basket? At least it's the first one I remember

Last song you heard: Old Gods Of Asgard — Take Control

Favorite childhood book: Not one in particular but I loved the Langelot book series, by Lieutenant X (Vladimir Volkoff). Not sure whether they've ever been translated to English, though

Currently reading: The Bright Ages, by Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry An excellent book if you want to see the Middle Age in Europe under a more accurate light than it's usually portrayed, plus it's easy to read imo.

Currently watching: I watched the first episode of Severance a few days ago and I think I'm gonna keep watching (funny that I saw you mentioning it like, the day after, @captainqster XD)

Currently consuming: What few neurons I have left trying to do something with my evening

Currently craving: Nothing if I'm being honest.

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CURRENT EVENT

Best britpop person, matchups will be randomised, fairly self explanatory. Submit musicians not bands (ie submit Damon Albarn not Blur). Feel free to judge based off whatever you like. Other poll submissions still open

HOW POLL SUBMISSIONS WORK

literally just send an ask and I’ll make it! You can do a poll on artists, songs, or albums. I am widening the scope of genres, while this blog is focused on britpop I don’t mind if other 90s bands or adjacent artists crop up.

PREVIOUS TOURNEY WINNERS AND INFO BELOW

1st: Blur

2nd: Manic Street Preachers

3rd: Suede

❌ELIMINATED ARTISTS❌

the artist they lost too will be in brackets

Teenage Fanclub (Round 1: Echobelly)

Rialto (Round 1: S*M*A*S*H)

Space (Round 1: Stereophonics)

Gorkys Zygotic Mynci (Round 1: Shampoo)

Ocean Colour Scene (Round 1: Placebo)

Reef (Round 1: Elastica)

Cecil (Round 1: Gene)

Silver Sun (Round 1: Skunk Ananise)

Bis (Round 1: Blur)

Nilon Bombers (Round 1: Powder)

Pimlico (Round 1: Northern Uproar)

60ft Dolls (Round 1: Gay Dad)

The Verve (Round 1: The Stone Roses)

Thurman (Round 1: Ash)

Oasis (Round 1: Pulp)

These Animal Men (Round 1: Salad)

The Lightning Seeds (Round 1: Ride)

Me Me Me (Round 1: Jocasta)

Mansun (Round 1: Super Furry Animals)

Heavy Stereo (Round 1: The Divine Comedy)

Bennet (Round 1: Republica)

Cast (Round 1: McAlmont & Butler)

Hefner (Round 1: The Pointy Birds)

Kula Shaker (Round 1: Manic Street Preachers)

Geneva (Round 1: Marion)

David Devant & His Spirit Wife (Round 1: The Boo Radleys)

Kenickie (Round 1: Lush)

The Seahorses (Round 1: The Bluetones)

Longpigs (Round 1: James)

Denim (Round 1: Catatonia)

Feeder (Round 1: Suede)

Saint Etienne (Round 1: The Charlatans)

Speedy (Round 1: Whiteout)

The Supernaturals (Round 1: The La’s)

Dodgy (Round 1: Sleeper)

Cornershop (Round 1: Supergrass)

Kinky Machine (Round 1: Menswe@r)

Hurricane #1 (Round 1: Shed Seven)

Babybird (Round 1: Paul Weller)

Delicatessen (Round 1: Daisy Chainsaw)

The Auteurs (Round 1: Strangelove)

Embrace (Round 1: Black Grape)

Theaudience (Round 1: Travis)

My Life Story (Round 1: The Beautiful South)

Babylon Zoo (Round 1: Edwyn Collins)

Young Offenders (Round 1: The Flamingoes)

Gene (Round 2: Ash)

The Bluetones (Round 2: The Divine Comedy)

Northern Uproar (Round 2: Strangelove)

Daisy Chainsaw (Round 2: Pulp)

Marion (Round 2: Echobelly)

Black Grape (Round 2: Blur)

Edwyn Collins (Round 2: Manic Street Preachers)

Skunk Ananise (Round 2: The Stone Roses)

The Boo Radleys (Round 2: Republica)

Salad (Round 2: The Beautiful South)

Gay Dad (Round 2: Sleeper)

The Pointy Birds (Round 2: The Flamingoes)

S*M*A*S*H (Round 2: James)

The Charlatans (Round 2: Super Furry Animals)

Menswe@r (Round 2: Elastica)

Jocasta (Round 2: Suede)

Shampoo (Round 2: Placebo)

Travis (Round 2: McAlmont & Butler)

Ride (Round 2: Catatonia)

Shed Seven (Round 2: Paul Weller)

Supergrass (Round 2: Lush)

Whiteout (Round 2: Stereophonics)

James (Round 3: Elastica)

Pulp (Round 3: Placebo)

Paul Weller (Round 3: Lush)

McAlmont & Butler (Round 3: Ash)

Echobelly (Round 3: Suede)

Republica (Round 3: Blur)

Catatonia (Round 3: Manic Street Preachers)

The Beautiful South (Round 3: Sleeper)

Strangelove (Round 3: Stereophonics)

The Divine Comedy (Round 3: Super Furry Animals)

The Flamingoes (Round 3: The Stone Roses)

Ash (Round 4: Placebo/Super Furry Animals)

The Stone Roses (Round 4: Manic Street Preachers)

Stereophonics (Round 4: Blur)

Sleeper (Round 4: Lush)

Elastica (Round 4: Suede)

Placebo (Round 5: Suede)

Lush (Round 5: Blur)

Super Furry Animals (Round 5: Manic Street Preachers)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and there are plenty coming out this month! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves this October.

✨ All These Sunken Souls (Anthology) ✨ The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosko Jackson ✨ Love in Winder Wonderland by Abiola Bellow ✨ Sinner's Isle by Angela Montoya ✨ Beholder by Ryan La Sala ✨ Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai ✨ The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker ✨ Flower and Thron by Rati Mehrotra ✨ The Misfit and His Dashing Devil by MN Bennet ✨ A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli ✨ Starling House by Alix E. Harrow ✨ Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle ✨ A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber ✨ Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare ✨ Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall

✨ Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros ✨ What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez ✨ Night of the Witch by Sarah Raasch and Beth Revis ✨ The Spells We Cast by Jason June ✨ The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado ✨ All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters ✨ Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause ✨ Thin Air by Kellie M. Parker ✨ If You'll Have Me by Eunnie ✨ The Space Between Here & Now by Sarah Suk ✨ I Loved You in Another Life by David Arnold ✨ Sleepless in Dubai by Sajni Patel ✨ The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold ✨ Brooms by Jasmine Walls ✨ Kween by Vichet Chum

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Is this a video about Breadtube? Is it a reaction video to Philosophy Tube / Abigail Thorn and her video about coming out as trans? Is it a reaction video to myself? Is there such a thing as objectivity? Is there hope for joy in the wake of postmodernism? Can YouTubers really fill the role of educators? If not, can I still join in the party of making fun of conservative nonsense from Ben Shapiro and PragerU? Please?

Watch to find out! Then tell us because we have no idea.

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Rozenblit, L., & Keil, F. (2002). The misunderstood limits of folk science: An illusion of explanatory depth. Cognitive science, 26(5), 521-562.

Fernbach, P. M., Rogers, T., Fox, C. R., & Sloman, S. A. (2013). Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding. Psychological science, 24(6), 939-946.

Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of personality and social psychology, 77(6), 1121.

Drescher, J. (2015). Out of DSM: Depathologizing homosexuality. Behavioral sciences, 5(4), 565-575.

Lindholm, C. (1997). ‘The Swat Pukhtum family as a political training ground’, in R.J. Casstillo (ed.) The Meaning of Madness. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Heine, S. J., Kitayama, S., Lehman, D. R., Takata, T., Ide, E., Leung, C., & Matsumoto, H. (2001). Divergent consequences of success and failure in japan and north america: an investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves. Journal of personality and social psychology, 81(4), 599.

Park, S. W., Tignor, S. M., Joo, M. J., & Heo, Y. H. (2016). Accuracy and bias in self-perception of performance: Narcissism matters in Korea as well. Korean Social Science Journal, 43(2), 29-43.

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SR—Russell Building

SD—Dirksen Building

SH—Hart Building

All telephone numbers

preceded by 202 prefix

INFORMATION

From Outside Dial:

Senate—224–3121

House—225–3121

From Inside Dial:

0 for Capitol Operator

Assistance

9 for an Outside Line

Senator Suite Phone Senator Suite Phone

Published by the Senate Sergeant at Arms ⁄ CIO

UNITED STATES SENATE

Washington, D.C. 20510

SUITE and TELEPHONE LIST

119th CONGRESS

June 6, 2025

Vice President

VANCE, J. D. 4-2424

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TILLIS, Thom (R-NC) SD-113 4-6342

TUBERVILLE, Tommy (R-AL) SR-455 4-4124

VAN HOLLEN, Chris (D-MD) SH-730 4-4654

WARNER, Mark R. (D-VA) SH-703 4-2023

WARNOCK, Raphael G. (D-GA) SH-717 4-3643

WARREN, Elizabeth (D-MA) SH-311 4-4543

WELCH, Peter (D-VT) SR-115 4-4242

WHITEHOUSE, Sheldon (D-RI) SH-530 4-2921

WICKER, Roger F. (R-MS) SR-425 4-6253

WYDEN, Ron (D-OR) SD-221 4-5244

YOUNG, Todd (R-IN) SD-185 4-5623

[twigstarpikachutroll22]

*CLAPS*

OKAY. FAVORITE SONGS. HAIR WE GO. STRAP IN.

A Glacier Eventually Farts (And Don’t You Listen To The Song Of Life), by Christodoulou

Between Us and Them, by Malinda Reese

But You’ll Do, by Malinda Reese

CAN’T STOP THE FEELING!!, by Justin Timberlake

Christmas Pageant, by Amanda Fagan

Circus, sung by Lindsay Mendez

Countdown, by Brendan Blaber ft. Dawn M. Bennet

Crayons Can Melt On Me For All I Care, by Relient K

Don’t Look Back / Don’t Wait For Me, by trashyinferno

Drinking Song For The Socially Anxious, by The Amazing Devil

Eating My Computer, by elliotly

Error, by niki (specifically the English piano cover by Jubyphonic)

Fireflies, by Owl City

Get Back Up Again, from Trolls

Horses, by Tegan Marie

I See You, by Acezu

Just One Day, by 2winz^2

Just Sing, from Trolls World Tour

Kelly Time, by Owl City

the nameless song about Kisagari Station (I listen to Rachie’s english cover of it)

La Da Dee, by Cody Simpson

Lesbian Ponies With Weapons, by Vylet

Let Me Cry, by Laura Marano

Long Live, by Taylor Swift

Neon Pegasus, by Parry Gripp

Not The Villain, by S.J. Tucker

Peppermint Winter, by Owl City

Queens Don’t, by RaeLynn

Rainbow Veins, by Owl City

Rather Be, by Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne

See What You Want, by Rachel Rose Mitchell

Ship In A Bottle, by Steffan Argus

Shut Up And Fish, by Maddie & Tae

Something You Don’t Know, by Rachel Rose Mitchell

Struck By Lightning, by Sara Kays ft. Cavetown

Stuck With You, by Aurelio Voltaire ft. Amanda Palmer

Thank God You Introduced Me To Your Sister, by Sarah Barrios

The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku (I listen to the english cover by Rachie)

The Girl Who’s Never Been, by Escape Key

The Masochism Tango, by Tom Lehrer

The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace, by The Amazing Devil

The Other Side of the Storm, from Trolls: The Beat Goes On

The Perfect Pokerap, by Brian David Gilbert

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, by Lemon Demon

True Colors, from Trolls (yes I know it’s not originally from there it’s by Cyndi Lauper but it is very specifically the Trolls version within the context of Trolls that means everything in the universe to me)

Underground, by Cody Fry

Waiting for The End, by el

Why Do I, by Set It Off ft. Hatsune Miku

Wicked Girls, by Seanan McGuire

You Didn’t, by Brett Young

Your Stupid Face, by Kaden MacKay

Hey eyeone! I want to know what your favorite songs are, if you see this post you are CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED to reblog with at least 1 song you have listened to and enjoyed but if you have more you'd like to share then go ahead! Also tag your friends!

I'll start, I'm going to list 5 of my favorite songs

Dr Sunshine Is Dead by Will Wood

134340 Pluto by Cojum Dip

Vulture by Bear ghost

Dear John by I monster

And finally: playing places: Oceans by Cosmo Sheldrake

Here's the people I want to tag

@f4y3w00d5 @ashen-the-tiefling @terrencetheshark14 @underpaid-guard @blacktipreefsharkwizard @the-gnomish-bastard @thatgayforkcrow @lixorloveslicorice @yourlocalbreadenthusiast @agentldiddy @aileaxthevoidien @slutty-wizard-council @monsterfucker-research-wizard and anyone else who wants to play!!!

[the-book-queen]

Tuesday (04/29) = new releases! I have a thread of romance novels below that caught my eye this week. Happy shopping! 🤓📖❤️

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New Release

The Payback Plan by Amy Andrews

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4iDzzLH 

New Release

Petals and Playlists by Lacey Baker

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3Gqw9yG 

New Release

Ms. V's Hot Girl Summer by A.H. Cunningham

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4m6uwqr 

New Release

Paging Dr. Breakup by Jillian David

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3S6cG8S 

New Release

Bad Boy In Her Bed by Katja Desjarlais

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3YNiWWQ 

New Release

All Fired Up by M. K. England

Contemporary Romance (FF) | https://amzn.to/3REwQXz 

New Release

Work Trip by Chloe Ford

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3RBChGI 

New Release

A Fresh Start at Polkerran Point by Cass Grafton

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3Yhoadw 

New Release

Their Surprise Reunion by Shelley Shepard Gray

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4iwQK1x 

New Release

The Single Dad's Guide to Recreation by Karen Grey

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/42tq1ye 

New Release

Up Close & Personal by Ana Holguin

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/42N5sLV 

New Release

Once Upon You & Me by Timothy Janovsky

Contemporary Romance (MM) | https://amzn.to/4cPgHYZ 

New Release

Royal Bride Demand by LaQuette

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4lLgASe 

New Release

How to Win Back a Royal by Justine Lewis

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4jJ0SoQ 

New Release

Nav's Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis

YA Contemporary Romance (FF) | https://amzn.to/3GrHM8A 

New Release

The Cosy Croissant Café by Jane Linfoot

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4cTrVfh 

New Release

Gold Coast Dilemma by Nana Malone

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3YKhHaT 

New Release

Lilac Time by Fern Michaels; Carolyn Brown; Lori Foster

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/42K1bJd 

New Release

Falling on a Duke by Stefany Nunes

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3GndXpx 

New Release

The Best Wrong Move by Lily Parker

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4jzpnp8 

New Release

Summer in a Bottle by Annie Rains

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/42xlKtJ 

New Release

A Summer to Start Over by Sera Taíno

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4lIR5B3 

New Release

My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

Contemporary Romance (FF) | https://amzn.to/4iEJNM6 

New Release

Situationship by E.M. Wilson

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/44HCHTt 

New Release

The Outsider by Maisey Yates

Contemporary Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/3GqUft0 

New Release

Sloth by Christi Caldwell

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4lNUwXl 

New Release

Marriage Bargain with the Comte by Parker J. Cole

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4jt1G1B 

New Release

The Lady's Great Escape by Allison B. Hanson

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/431y1Xk 

New Release

The Devil's Own Duke by Anna Harrington

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4jPIHxQ 

New Release

Hardly a Gentleman by Eloisa James

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/4jt1QWL 

New Release

Hazardous to a Duke’s Heart by Sabrina Jeffries

Historical Romance (MF) | https://amzn.to/431y7hE 

New Release

The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod

Historical Romance (FF) | https://amzn.to/4iBD3yv 

New Release

Two by Kristin Cast and Gina L. Maxwell

Fantasy Romance (MMF) | https://amzn.to/3YjidfZ 

New Release

Personal Security by Lisa Childs

Romantic Suspense (MF) | https://amzn.to/3Yhsh9p 

New Release

Forbidden Ice by Cynthia Eden

Romantic Suspense (MF) | https://amzn.to/4ixeWB7 

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Or you can find all the new releases, including NOOK/Kobo*/Bookshop*/GR links, up on the blog:

*affiliate

New Romance Releases (04/29): Meryl Wilsner, Eloisa James, Cynthia Eden & more! 📚 https://www.tbqsbookpalace.com/2025/04/new-romance-releases-0429-meryl-wilsner.html 

Have I missed any? What book are you most excited to read this week?

Putting these lists together takes time. If you appreciate this content, please consider buying me a Ko-Fi. http://ko-fi.com/danielletbq 

[simoneashleydaily]

NEW Simone Ashley (with Gemma Chan & Ncuti Gatwa) via Instagram (@swarovski), at the Annabel's x Swarovski Holiday Façade Unveiling Party, at The Nightclub At Annabel's, London UK, 23rd November 2021

[jbaileyfansite]

JONATHAN BAILEY Attending the British Academy Film Awards (March 13, 2022) | 📸: David Fisher, David M. Bennet, Mike Marsland, Joe Mather

[emilysidhe]

I suspect that there’s a combination of a lot of different factors here, but I just checked my annotated edition, and David M Shapard suggests that Darcy might think that Mr. Bennet would object to Darcy’s interfering in the affair.

Something I just caught on my last re-listen to Pride and Prejudice: in Mrs. Gardiner’s letter, it’s brought up that Mr. Darcy deliberately avoids Mr. Bennet while in London.

“… Mr. Darcy’s next step was to make your uncle acquainted with it, and he first called in Gracechurch-street the evening before I came home. But Mr. Gardiner could not be seen, and Mr. Darcy found, on farther inquiry, that your father was still with him, but would quit town the next morning. He did not judge your father to be a person whom he could so properly consult as your uncle, and therefore readily postponed seeing him, till after the departure of the former.” (Chapter 52, emphasis mine)

This is not remarked on further in the text; Darcy doesn’t bring it up later and Elizabeth is more concerned with his rescuing Lydia than the fact that her father could have been spared a few days’ grief. This decision by Darcy, which I think must be the side effect of Austen’s careful timing of events (Austen gives so little detail in general in P&P that the constant notation of the passage of time is quite noticeable to me), is a rather dramatic demonstration of Darcy’s relationship with Elizabeth’s family, made more significant by the fact that Elizabeth is not directly witnessing it, but it’s left almost entirely unaddressed within text, left to the reader to figure out what it means. But I don’t know what it means! Here’s my propositions for why Darcy does this, in no particular order:

A) Darcy does not think Mr. Bennet is the proper person to consult because of the delicacy of the situation. He assumes that Mr. Bennet, due to fatherly affection for Lydia, would not be able to calmly and rationally deal with Wickham, but that Mr. Gardiner, as an uncle, would.

B) The same as above, but instead of fatherly affection, he thinks Mr. Bennet might act rashly or inappropriately as an aspect of his character. This is an assessment of Mr. Bennet’s character, but does not necessarily mean that Darcy thinks poorly of him.

C) Darcy does not think Mr. Bennet is the proper person to consult because they need to discuss money. He assumes that Mr. Bennet’s finances and/or attitudes surrounding money would hinder either Lydia’s settlement or the settling of Wickham’s debts and the purchase of his commission.

D) Darcy has had limited contact with Mr. Bennet and is simply uncomfortable with discussing things with him because they are only nominally acquainted; by contrast, he has had several conversations with Mr. Gardiner and likes him. The issue is him simply not knowing Mr. Bennet, rather than him knowing him well enough to think badly of him.

E) Darcy waits until Mr. Bennet has gone home out of a sense of protecting him/the need for him at Longbourn/not wishing to delay his journey.

F) Darcy already intends to hide everything from Elizabeth and believes that this will be impossible if he involves Mr. Bennet/he trusts Mr. Gardiner’s discretion.

G) Somehow, all of this relates to the fact that it’s Mr. Gardiner’s house. And this overrides the fact that this is Mr. Bennet’s daughter????

H) Darcy thinks of Mr. Gardiner as his friend and as a useful relative of Elizabeth, but Mr. Bennet he holds in less esteem. Both a bias for Mr. Gardiner AND one against Mr. Bennet.

I) He doesn’t want to have to explain himself to Mr. Bennet. He knows his actions will prompt speculation, knows that Mr. Gardiner already suspects something re: feelings for Lizzie so that ship has sailed, and he doesn’t need Elizabeth’s DAD poking his nose in!! Because he’d sniff him out.

I am very interested to know what people think!

[ericeffiorg]

Simone Ashley at the EE Baftas Red Carpet, 2022. Photos shot by David M. Bennet and Dave J. Hogan

[insanityclause]

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 11: Tom Hiddleston attends the British Academy Film Awards 2022 Gala Dinner at The Londoner Hotel on March 11, 2022 in London, England. (Photos by Joe Maher/Dave J Hogan/David M. Bennet/Mike Marsland Getty Images)