Tag: games

Happy 10th Birthday, “Return to Longbourn”!

Return to Longbourn is 10 years old, and I want to celebrate with a short story, games, and prizes! I’ll never forget the fun I had writing this book, even though (or actually, especially because) it didn’t go at all the way I had planned. I set out to following up my first very successful …

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Games for a Rainy Day: Bilboquet

Family letters and remembrances tell us that Jane Austen  played a variety of games with her young nieces an nephews, and was quite good at many of them, including bilboquet.

Games Jane Austen Might Have Played: Battledore

Welcome Austen in August Readers! Austen Variations is joining The Book Rat for a month-long celebration of all things Austen!  Join me a looking at one of the less examined aspects of Austen’s life, how might she have had fun? What did the gentlemen and ladies of the Regency Era do for fun? With the …

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Games Jane Austen Might Have Played: Pall Mall

Welcome Austen in August Readers! Austen Variations is joining The Book Rat for a month-long celebration of all things Austen!  Join me a looking at one of the less examined aspects of Austen’s life, how might she have had fun? What did the gentlemen and ladies of the Regency Era do for fun? With the …

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