Rectors and Vicars and Curates…Oh My!
I must confess, trying to understand the Regency clergy just about drove me over the edge. References didn’t answer my questions, then they would contradict one another. I thought I’d pull my hair out....
View ArticleTaking Orders
Taking orders In Jane Austen’s writing we encounter a number of characters like Edward Ferrars and Edmund Bertram who are planning to take orders. Her readers understood what that meant, but the...
View ArticleMansfield Park watch along! Part 1
Watch Mansfield Park with me and and we’ll dish over all the wonderful little period details together. Mansfield Park is not the most popular Jane Austen work by any means. But I confess, I really like...
View ArticleIt’s a (church) living…
Jane Austen often wrote of clergymen with church livings and gentlemen with livings to bestow. What exactly was she talking about? In short, a living meant a guaranteed income and home for the lifetime...
View ArticleA Little Colorful Language: Church and Clergy
I confess, I am a word nerd. I love language captivates me, especially in the way it relates to a culture. Slang, the speech of the common man, paints such a picture of the speaker’s world. I love it!...
View ArticleA Country Parson’s Life
I’d like to welcome Brenda Cox today as she shares a fascinating article on a country parson’s life during the regency era. Country clergymen appear in each of Jane Austen’s novels. Some are satirized,...
View ArticleGentlemanly professions and free books!
What options did the younger sons of the gentry have when choosing a profession. The post Gentlemanly professions and free books! appeared first on Random Bits of Fascination.
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