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Read more about the article Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

  • Post published:March 8, 2017
  • Post category:History/Reading
  • Reading time:5 mins read

One of the reasons I love reading Victorian/Regency novels is that I get a glimpse of the everyday rituals, strange to us now, that were so important to the people performing them. One of those rituals that always seemed at once charming and terrifying to me was the obligation of…

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I kind of feel sorry for the woodpecker.

  • Post published:May 7, 2015
  • Post category:History/Reading
  • Reading time:1 min read

Many buildings outside London had thatched roofs of reed or straw, and in January 1784 Woodforde noted: 'I rejoiced much this morning on shooting an old wood-pecker, which had teised [teased] me a long time in pulling out the reed from my house. He had been often shot at by…

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I’m Samantha Garner, author of The Quiet is Loud, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. A Canadian of mixed Filipino-Finnish background, my character-driven fantasy and sci-fi novels explore identity and belonging. View The Quiet is Loud on the StoryGraph, Bookshop.org, and Goodreads, or click the image below to learn more about it, and where to buy.

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