Comments on: A question

By: Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:36:35 +0000

So, if I make all my cowboy boots Tony Lamas, am I guilty of the same crime?

By: gg's mom

gg's mom — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:17:00 +0000

Amy,
Have you read the Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas? In one of the first ones she has what you are describing and a think a lady tagged along.
As far as research goes, have you tried speaking to someone in the UK? I know there is a ban on fox hunting now but I would google it anyway and find a place where they did take place and make a phone call. As a rule, people here are super hepfull about research. And at the very least a live person can tell you where to start looking.

Courtney-
Which foreign country? Research?

By: Courtney Milan

Courtney Milan — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:07:40 +0000

Amy, sorry, I know NOTHING of hunting parties and am in foreign country so no research books here right now!

If you´re not a member of the Beaumonde, join and ask!

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:46:59 +0000

On the topic of historical… stuff. I have a question that I can not seem to find online or at my library, and I think I should go mad and start babbling soon.

In the mid-nineteenth century, how, exactly, were hunts conducted at house parties. I don’t mean hunting parties, but house parties that lasted a few weeks and the men thought hunting was a swell idea? And if women wanted to tag along, was that possible, and how would it work?

I realize you are not my walking reference, but I’m seriously desperate here, so I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask.

By: Erica Ridley

Erica Ridley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:11:20 +0000

>> It would be like an author setting a book in “North America”. <<

This cracked me up.

By: Erica Ridley

Erica Ridley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:10:02 +0000

Hehehe. And I am seriously over the MB shoes, too. I read a rash of contemporaries over the last week or two, and at least 50% of the heroines owned or wished to own a pair of MB shoes. Are we not past this???

By: C.J. Redwine

C.J. Redwine — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:55:16 +0000

Yum, Manolo Blahnik. *wipes drool*

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:02:27 +0000

Haha. What I love is that um, many people have no idea what Sevres pottery or Aubusson carpets look like–nor what distinguishes them from say, Delft or Meissen porcelain and Savonnerie carpets, respectively. And don’t get me started on Worth. He may have been the father of modern couture, but he had major competitors just as talented (Doucet, Callot Soeurs, Paquin, Beer, etc–and Charles Frederick Worth died in 1895 btw) whom are easy to discover if you read at least one book on 19th century fashion.

But there I go, name-dropping. lol

By: Franzeca

Franzeca — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:09:35 +0000

One could always just read more Georgette Heyer for name-dropping in Regency-set novels. Her research is impeccable. Though it always bothered me a little when a Turkish carpet was referred to as a “turkey rug.”

I agree that the temptation to use the same proper nouns for product placement needs to balance recognition for readers with genuine new research.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:44:38 +0000

Where’ve I been? I haven’t noticed all those vases. I like Turkish and Oriental rugs