Visiting Albany

Candles burned low in one of the finer sets of rooms at the Albany, current residence of Alfred Fitzwallace, rising junior solicitor, and sensible gentleman. The evening saw the contents of his finest brandy bottles dip low as well while he and two friends bent over the cards on his inlaid walnut table. So begins […]

The Slums of London in Regency England

Highlighting the Facts behind Historical Romance with Jude Knight Like any big city, London has always had slum areas. In the early nineteenth century, they were noxious and dangerous. I’ve been studying them for the last two novels in my Regency series, The Return of the Mountain King. In 1800, over a million people lived […]

Visiting Grosvener Square

I travel. Sometimes I travel by boat, plane, or automobile. Sometimes I travel by book. This week I rambled through Mayfair with Mary Lancaster from a modest home on Half Moon Street to a shabby past its prime house on Charles Street to the homes of the truly wealthy on Grosvener Square.   As opulent […]