Author: Cora Lee

Cora Lee is a National Bestselling author of Regency romance. She went on a twelve year expedition through the blackboard jungle as a high school math teacher before publishing Save the Last Dance for Me, the first book in the Maitland Maidens series. She then followed it up with six other novels and novellas ranging from sweet and traditional to spicy and suspenseful. When she’s not walking Rotten Row at the fashionable hour or attending the entertainments of the Season, you might find her participating in Regency Fiction Writers events, wading through her towering TBR pile, or eagerly awaiting the next Marvel movie release. If you’d like to find out more about Cora or her books you can sign up for her newsletter, or connect with her on Facebook, BlueSky, Bookbub, or Goodreads.
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Friday Favorite: British Library iPad App

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This week’s Favorite combines history with technology: meet the British Library’s 19th Century Historical Collection iPad App!

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From the website:

What’s in it?

  • Over 60,000 historical books
  • Curated books and collections including Libri Italini, Iceland Country of Honour exhibit with the Frankfurt Book Fair, High Seas Adventures and many other interesting works with multi-media content from our curators
  • Commentary on selected titles
  • Images of original maps
  • Author inscriptions and margin notes
  • Classics in foreign languages such as Italian, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Dutch

There is a one-time fee of $89.99 for non-UK users or £49 within the UK to access all 60,000 books. But the app itself is free and comes with access to about 100 books without paying the fee.

Regency, This Week In History

This Week In History: March 30-April 5

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March 30, 1863: Danish Prince Wilhelm Georg is chose as King George of Greece.

March 31, 1889: The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.

April 1, 1826: Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

April 2, 1800: Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.

April 3, 1860: The first successful US Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

April 4, 1814: Napoleon abdicates for the first time.

April 5, 1804: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.

 

Books, TBR Challenge

Cora’s TBR Challenge Check-In

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March is coming to an end, my fellow readers–how is your TBR Challenge progressing?

This has been a tough month for me. I left my teaching career behind and have gone Emma 2009into business for myself as a copy editor. Leaving the classroom was an immense relief, and I don’t regret it for a minute. But self-employment is scary, especially since I’m just beginning to build a client base. March has also been a month of changing weather, so it’s migraine season once again for me. Combine those two things, and you get little reading time for Cora.

On the bright side, my To Be Watched lists have begun to shrink. While reading and hollow-crownclose work have been difficult with migraine symptoms, watching historical movies and TV shows has been a nice way to pass the time (a bigger screen, farther away is less work for my eyes, and much more comfortable to my poor head). My favorite so far? A toss up between the 2009 adaptation of Emma with Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai, and The Hollow Crown series with Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and Tom Hiddleston as Henry V.

Regency, This Week In History

This Week In History: March 23-29

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March 23, 1775: Patrick Henry delivers his famous “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.

March 24, 1707: The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

March 25, 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

March 26, 1812: An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.

March 27, 1854: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia, entering the Crimean War.

March 28, 1809: Heinrich Wilhelm Mattaus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

March 29, 1849: The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.

 

Books, Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites: Richard Armitage Reads Classic Love Poems

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Classic Love Poems

Our Favorite this week is 22 minutes of bliss. Richard Armitage has brought his beautiful voice to the audiobook world once again in Classic Love Poems, including work by Regency favorites Keats, Byron, and Shelley. You can find this collection on Audible in the US and UK.

Here’s the full list of poems:

  • “How do I love thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
  • “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • “To Be One with Each Other” by George Eliot
  • “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
  • “Bright Star” by John Keats
  • “Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • “Meeting at Night” by Robert Browning
  • “The Dream” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
  • “I carry your heart” by e. e. cummings
  • “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
  • “Give All to Love” by Ralph Waldo Emerson