Regency Reader

Joan Smith: Love’s Harbinger

By Anne | January 8, 2019 - 12:49 pm |January 22, 2019 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Joan Smith

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Lady Faith Mordain’s fiancé is castigated in Guy Delamar’s Harbinger newspaper as a thief. She believes the social climbing editor must be wrong–though Lord Thomas Continue →

Joan Smith: Talk of the Town

By Anne | November 22, 2017 - 7:50 am |December 13, 2017 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Funny Regencies, Joan Smith

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Daphne Ingleside’s visit to her Aunt Effie in London was meant to add a little spark to her placid country life. And it did–once the Continue →

Joan Smith: An Infamous Proposal

By Anne | May 30, 2017 - 8:00 am |June 23, 2017 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Joan Smith

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SHE DESIRED NOTHING MORE THAN A BIDDABLE HUSBAND. . . . Emma, having gone at seventeen directly from her papa’s home to her husband’s arms, Continue →

Joan Smith: Bath Scandal

By Anne | March 6, 2017 - 12:25 pm |March 28, 2017 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Joan Smith

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Beatrice Searle, a beautiful and charming widow, agreed to smarten up tomboy Gillie Southam, because she believed Gillie’s half-brother, Lord Southam, would accompany her to Continue →