Download or read book Regency Christmas Parties written by Annie Burrows and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three festive Regency stories in one collection An invitation to… Three seasonal Society parties! In Invitation to a Wedding by Annie Burrows, Clara’s immersed in a glamorous aristocratic wedding, but it’s captivating Lieutenant Hugo who sweeps her off her feet. In Snowbound with the Earl by Lara Temple, Bella makes an unlikely ally of forbidding Lord Deverill to thwart an elopement—and gets stranded with him for Christmas! In A Kiss at the Winter Ball by Joanna Johnson, Maria’s rescued from a snowstorm by Viscount Stanford, and receives a life-changing invitation. From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Download or read book On Hosting Your Regency Era Christmas Party A Companion to Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas written by Soho Press and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the Regency-era Christmas offers a few helpful tips for celebrating your holiday like Jane Austen! The latest installment in Stephanie Barron’s richly historical Jane Austen mystery series takes place over the twelve days of Christmas, a Regency-era tradition unlike the holiday we celebrate today. In the pages of this free companion guide to the novel, you’ll find authentic ways to celebrate your own Georgian Christmas—from decorations to recipes to parlor games—for full immersion into the world of our heroine. About Jane Austen and the Twelve Days of Christmas: On Christmas Eve of 1814, we find the Regency era’s most beloved author on holiday at the Vyne, the gorgeous estate of the prominent Chute household, with family and friends. As they prepare for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, the guests are all in a celebratory mood—until one of the Yuletide revelers dies in a riding accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, can Jane discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
Download or read book Regency Christmas Parties written by ANNIE. TEMPLE BURROWS (LARA.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to... Three seasonal society parties! In Invitation to a wedding by Annie Burrows, Clara's immersed in a glamorous aristocratic wedding, but it's captivating Lieutenant Hugo who sweeps her off her feet. In Snowbound With The Earl by Lara Temple, Bella makes an unlikely ally of forbidding Lord Deverill to thwart an elopement - and gets stranded with him for Christmas! In A Kiss At The Winter Ball by Joanna Johnson, Maria's rescued from a snowstorm by Viscount Stanford, and receives a life-changing invitation...
Download or read book Regency Christmas Parties written by Annie Burrows and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regency Christmas Parties - Annie Burrows, Lara Temple & Joanna Johnson An invitation to...three seasonal, Society parties! In Invitation To A Wedding by Annie Burrows, Clara's immersed in a glamourous aristocratic wedding, but it's captivating Lieutenant Hugo who sweeps her off her feet. In Snowbound With The Earl by Lara Temple, Bella makes an unlikely ally of forbidding Lord Deverill to thwart an elopement -- and gets stranded with him for Christmas! In A Kiss At The Winter Ball by Joanna Johnson, Maria's rescued from a snowstorm by Viscount Stanford, and receives a life-changing invitation... A Family For The Reclusive Baron - Carol Arens From determined bachelor to family man? Baron Elmstone's self-imposed isolation is shattered when he becomes guardian to two orphaned children. Forced to take a wife to provide them with a mother, their carer, Minerva Grant, seems the perfect choice for a convenient marriage. Yet her sunny personality, so opposite to his own reclusive disposition, and the emotions she's awakening are proving most inconvenient!
Download or read book A Jane Austen Christmas written by Maria Grace and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christmas traditions and images of 'old fashioned' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations. Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities. How odd? Families rarely decorated Christmas trees. Festivities centered on socializing instead of gift-giving. Festivities focused on adults, with children largely consigned to the nursery. Holiday events, including balls, parties, dinners, and even weddings celebrations, started a week before Advent and extended all the way through to Twelfth Night in January. Take a step into history with Maria Grace as she explores the traditions, celebrations, games and foods that made up Christmastide in Jane Austen's era. Packed with information and rich with detail from period authors, Maria Grace transports the reader to a longed-for old fashioned Christmas. Non-fiction
Download or read book Mistletoe Christmas written by Eloisa James and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From four beloved Regency romance writers - Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley - comes the hilarious tale of a Christmas house party, serving up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke's Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto - and the scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid . . . Lady Cressida, the duke's daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments - and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Lady Isabelle Wilkshire is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful quartet of stories that is the perfect Christmas treat for fans of Bridgerton and Reputation.
Download or read book The English Festivals written by Laurence Whistler and published by Dean Street Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the end of World War II, Laurence Whistler set out to write 'a guide to the festivals of England as they are and as they might be': the result is a captivatingly readable and enchanting narrative, the ancient holidays revealed as a microcosm of the wheel of life in England. Christmas, New Year, Twelfth night, Easter, May Day, Whitsun, Midsummer, Harvest (and sixteen others) - these are the most ancient of our traditions, more ancient than any present-day beliefs, and strong enough to have survived even the attacks of Puritans in the seventeenth century. Here, for example, is the radiant Kissing Bough, whose candles we lit before we had ever heard of a Christmas Tree. Here is the way to colour and engrave Easter Eggs. Here are fireworks in all their extravagant variety. Or here is the history of the Valentine and the Christmas Card. Laurence Whistler has written this scholarly book with the imaginative delight of a poet. This new edition features an introduction by art historian James Russell. "His book has been written in delight and passes on delight to the reader... it has a lovely benevolence; the author's knowledge, his sense of values, his breadth of outlook are in evidence on every page." John O'London's Weekly "There is scholarship here about the past, and delight in the festivals of today... a book that will be delightful to pick up again at any time of the year." Sunday Times "Possessing enchantment of matter, it has also enchantment of manner." Time and Tide "Its younger readers will find themselves educated, perhaps unconsciously, by publisher as well as author." Observer "A charming book." Country Life "A most charming and decorative volume." Sunday Chronicle "Learning and common sense have gone to the making of this attractive, well-illustrated book." Birmingham News "A delightful gift book for all the year round... altogether charming." Edinburgh Evening News "A book very much out of the ordinary." Sphere
Download or read book Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas written by Stephanie Barron and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted. Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane’s fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
Download or read book A Christmas Kiss written by Jen Geigle Johnson and published by Jen Geigle Johnson. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding poignant heartbreak behind garish clothing and outlandish fashion, Eva hopes to never marry. Oscar is happy to never propose, but the two of them find a casual friendship growing into a strength of feeling that challenges even the most deeply rooted stubborn intentions or fears. When her presence is requested at a house party of a distant relative, she does what any outlandish woman who has stopped caring about her reputation would do: She invites Oscar to go with her. Oscar is ready to live on his own, but he needs the means to do so. When Edward has stretched his last ounce of patience, Oscar decides to spend as much time from home as possible. In that moment, he receives an invitation from his most outlandish and garish friend inviting him to attend a house party. Enjoy a sweet regency romance full of charm and lovely holiday traditions. The other books in An Easton Family Christmas include Snow and Mistletoe A Christmas Kiss Wishing on a Christmas Star Can also be found as a Vella story told in episodes called, A Regency Christmas Snow.
Download or read book A Regency Christmas Feast written by Mary Balogh and published by Signet. This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of five original Christmas stories presents works by Mary Balogh, Sandra Heath, Edith Layton, Barbara Metzger, and Patricia Rice, who tells of a woman who must decide whether to defy her father's wishes for a second chance at love. Original.
Download or read book Twas the Night After Christmas written by Sabrina Jeffries and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, is estranged from his mother. When his mother's new companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart, writes to tell him that his mother is seriously ill, he goes home. But when he learns that the lovely widow tricked him in order to effect a holiday reconciliation, he refuses to stay.
Download or read book A Regency Christmas written by Sandra Heath and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend the holidays in Regency England this Christmas, courtesy of five beloved and bestselling authors.
Download or read book An Enchanting Regency Christmas written by Edith Layton and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited second anthology of Edith Layton's Regency romance Christmas stories includes four heart-warming tales. Originally published in separate anthologies, and out-of-print for many years, these holiday novellas by legendary Regency romance author Edith Layton are in one volume for the first time ever! This collection includes the following stories: The Earl’s Nightingale The Hounds of Heaven The Rake’s Christmas The Dark Man
Download or read book A Match Made at Christmas written by Ellie St Clair and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two matchmaking mothers and the most spirited of dogs bring them together at a Christmas party, can a disowned son of an earl and an enterprising woman really avoid the love they've been running from? Ivy Northrup craves adventure, excitement, views beyond Cambridgeshire. Which is why she has, politely, turned down every suitor her mother has brought before her. When her family accepts an invitation to the annual Christmas house party at the Earl of Walsingham's, Ivy sees no cause for celebration, as it is the same people, the same games, the same gossip. Except, this time, she is surprised. For Everett Pine, the disowned son of the earl, has been tricked by his mother into attending the house party. Everett arrives bearing grudges against the father who chose to believe the word of others over his own, and is prepared to step on the first stagecoach back to London -- until Ivy proposes a scheme to teach their matchmaking mothers a lesson. When their fake courtship becomes much too real, will they overcome all that is holding them back from fully surrendering their hearts, or will a little bit of Christmas Spirit work its magic? This Regency Romance contains steamy scenes.
Download or read book Mistletoe Christmas written by Eloisa James and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From four beloved writers—Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley—come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke’s Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto… not to mention scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid. Lady Cressida, the duke’s daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments—and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Her cousin, Lady Isabelle Wilkshire, is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful, seductive quartet of stories that you will savor for the Season!
Download or read book A REGENCY CHRISTMAS CAROL written by Riho Sachimi and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did I fall for this devilish man? Barbara needs to stop her father. He’s about to incite a protest against new factory owner Joseph, who’s known as a merciless businessman, and she’s worried the protesters may be thrown into jail. As soon as she gets to the site of the new factory, the crowd of people almost pushes her to the ground, but Joseph saves her from out of nowhere. Despite his reputation, he captures her heart in a matter of seconds. But is he just using her to get what he wants?
Download or read book It s a Wonderful Regency Christmas written by Edith Layton and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magic of the holiday season comes alive with six winning Regency romance stories by a master of the genre. Originally published in separate anthologies, and out-of-print for many years, these Christmas-themed novellas by legendary Regency romance author Edith Layton are in one volume for the first time ever! This collection includes the following stories: The Duke’s Progress It’s a Wonderful Christmas The Gingerbread Man The Last Gift The Amiable Miser Dogstar
