Dear Reader,
We continue our reporting of last week about goings-on in the country.
Dear Mr. Clemens,
A newcomer to our dear town of Horsham may prove to be the death of one of our residents. A Miss M, come to live with her widowed aunt, has seen fit to harass a certain gentleman living deservedly retired after earning a grievous wound during his honorable and brave service to His Majesty the King on the Peninsula.
Not only has this impertinent miss allowed her dog to attack poor Mr. F, but she has assailed him in his own library to reprimand him for his housekeeping (or lack thereof). He sent her to the rightabout, to be sure, but with such ill-breeding, one suspects that is not the end of it with Miss M.
While every self-respecting house-mistress in Horsham might agree that Mr. F’s expectations of his housekeeper leave much to be desired, none could blame him for losing all hope after a certain Miss W jilted him so cruelly. But if our meddlesome new resident means to continue her interference, poor Mr. F’s peace is likely to be broken up forever!
Hearts in Bloom: A Regency Anthology
by Judith Hale Everett, Rosanne E. Lortz, GL Robinson, K. Lyn Smith, Caroline Warfield
A spring anthology brimming with all the hope, heartache, and thrill of first love. Mysterious admirers, magical talismans, spirited matchmakers, and a bit of creative persistence overcome the obstacles to true love, no matter how daunting!
Story Featured: Susannah Tells the Truth, by GL Robinson
A grumpy invalid meets his match in an outspoken red-head, whose opinions about self-pity prompt him to set about improving his situation, and might just convince him to try his chances at winning her heart.
Pre-order link: https://www.amazon.com/Hearts-Bloom-Regency-Anthology-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B0FWN8RXGP
About the Author
Glynis Louise Robinson is from Portsmouth in southern England but has lived in the USA for over forty years with her American husband. Her romances are written in memory of her dear sister Francine, who died unexpectedly in 2018. Visit her website, https://romancenovelsbyglrobinson.com
It has come to the attention of this author that the London season, already awash with its usual trifles and dalliances, has a new and most peculiar drama unfolding within its very heart. One might even say it has bite. The whispers begin not in the gilded ballrooms of Mayfair, but in the hallowed halls of Harley Street—a place one typically associates with ailments of the body, not affairs of the soul.
A Taste of Gold
The season has barely begun, and already the rumour mill churns with a tale so delicious it threatens to overshadow the usual fare of lackluster courtships and ill-advised elopements. It seems a familiar face has returned to the unforgiving glare of the London ballroom, though under circumstances far from joyous.
Instead of Harmony
To the gracious Readers of this most Charming and Incomparable journal, called the Missal of Mischief by those who fail to see its Import, but more widely known to its Affectionate and Loyal friends as the Teatime Tattler, I address these remarks.
whose bonnet shop was the only building consumed in the blaze. That she is French cannot be contested. But her parents fled that country for our shores years ago! Should they be blamed for the depredations of that monster Robespierre? Still less their daughter, a mere child at the time, now the widow of a bold Royal Navy seaman, lost at sea in a naval action. Shame, shame, to blame the victim of three bereavements and a fire for her own woe!
The Chelsea Milliner