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12 Days of Christmas, Day Nine by Nicole Clarkston

Welcome back to our Twelve Days of Christmas event! I’m hitting the dance floor today with nine Jane Austen ladies, but we have a twist. It’s Truth or Dance time, so help our ladies decide which would be the  most fun (or least awkward)! You can check out the results after you take the survey. …

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Shall We Dance? An extract from Ardently

  Shall We Dance? It is nearly the party season, after all, but as we now well know, a dance between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet is never a simple matter. Whether in print or played out on the screen, they are always full of delicious tension, unspoken desires, much embarrassment and confusion. Don’t you just …

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About the ball, pt 3…

Balls and assemblies form a regular feature of Georgian and Regency era historical novels. Often heroes and heroines meet, flirt, fight, and even fall in love on the ballroom floor. But what was it really like to attend a ball? Recently I got to find out first hand. In previous installments, I shared about the …

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About the ball…pt 2

 Balls and assemblies form a regular feature of Georgian and Regency era historical novels. Often heroes and heroines meet, flirt, fight, and even fall in love on the ballroom floor. But what was it really like to attend a ball? Recently I got to find out first hand. In the previous installment, I shared about …

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About the ball…

Balls and assemblies form a regular feature of Georgian and Regency era historical novels. Often heroes and heroines meet, flirt, fight, and even fall in love on the ballroom floor. But what was it really like to attend a ball? Recently I got to find out first hand. My husband, eldest son and his wife, …

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