Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn is a Regency romance with a dash of adventure, which its heroine always wanted. ( Read more... )

I thought I'd mentioned beginning this, but I had it mixed up with the last annual I read, The Big Book of School Stories for Girls. The British Girl's Annual was 'compiled by the editor of Little Folks' and published by Cassell and Company Ltd in 1918 ( Read more... )

Nicola and the Viscount: Meg Cabot. Macmillan Children's Books, 2002.

There's an incident in the Chalet School series - bear with me - where a group of younger girls ask a prefect about books that are set in Regency England. Basically they want to learn old-fashioned slang to get around school rules. The elder girl suggests Georgette Heyer over ( Read more... )