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		<title>What exactly is the Regency, anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why it is, but I seem to be writing a lot about things about which I had vowed never to mention.  Like recently I broke my promise to myself that I would never ever write about the Prince Regent.  But there I was a few months ago typey-tapping out a post on what a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3973&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exit stage, pursued by a carrot&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May 1812]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Of Honest Fame]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a theory.  (It&#8217;s probably rubbish, but I thought I&#8217;d take it out for a spin&#8230;)  It&#8217;s about history and how, over time, historians and/or authors of historical fiction, develop a specialism.  (Some might call it a mania.)  I think it has to do with having an affinity with a certain era.  With understanding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3894&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viscount Castlereagh, Sorley Maclean and the January glums&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1812]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Castlereagh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Bew]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regency politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of late, I&#8217;ve been a complete git.  A foul-tempered grumbletonian.  And morose.  (Though I can&#8217;t decide if I want to sit in a corner and sulk, or if I&#8217;d prefer to thunk my head against the wall over the limitations of my pea-brained intellect.) Because here&#8217;s the thing.  I&#8217;ve been reading Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny, John Bew&#8217;s new and rather fine biography [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3814&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Figaro&#8230;Figaro&#8230;Figaro!</title>
		<link>http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/figaro-figaro-figaro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Continental Blockade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Italian history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great joys of writing historical fiction is that there are no barriers.  No &#8216;this belongs to another faculty, like the Music faculty&#8217; moments in the work.  (Though I dare say this may hold true for biographers as well.)  Because all these disciplines&#8211;music, art, literature, philosophy&#8211;are invaluable for understanding those who people the past, and their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3783&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mean girls 1812-style</title>
		<link>http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/mean-girls-1812-style-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1812]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Vickery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Female characters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mansfield Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pride & Prejudice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regency society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sense & Sensibility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop it right there.  I just want to make it perfectly clear that I was firmly resolved not to write this blog.  Indeed, I was absolutely crystal that I was determined never to touch this subject again.  Not even so much as with a barge pole.  In fact, for days (weeks) I have promised myself that I would not, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3749&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airing one&#8217;s vocabulary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/airing-ones-vocabulary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Edgeworth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago whilst reading the early 19th century novel, The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth, I came across this passage:  &#8220;&#8216;Gad!  You distress me now!&#8217; said Lord Clonbrony, &#8216;and I didn&#8217;t expect it, or I wouldn&#8217;t make a fool of myself this way,&#8217; added he, ashamed of his emotion, and whiffling it off.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3711&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With best wishes for this Christmas 2011&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/with-best-wishes-for-this-christmas-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to think of a nifty post for you.  Something festive and rich in the comfort and goodwill of the season.  But the fact is&#8230;well&#8230;the fact is that I&#8217;ve been so busy, what with decorating the Christmas tree and baking and eating Christmas num-nums (emphasis on the eating&#8230;) and generally overcoming all those insurmountable trifles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3592&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Napoleon&#8217;s Ruinous Retreat from Russia&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/napoleons-ruinous-retreat-from-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a very festive topic, I&#8217;ll admit.  Not full of Christmas cheer and a wassail or anything.  And I&#8217;m sorry for that.  Truly I am.  For I should like to be telling you something to bring joy and laughter and goodwill to men, but&#8230; But you see, 199 years ago this week, the infamous 29th Bulletin announced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3556&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Bridge and shooting the rapids&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/london-bridge-and-shooting-the-rapids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Righto.  It&#8217;s Friday afternoon and I have now successfully procrastinated&#8211;for most of the day&#8230; But obviously it is Friday afternoon and I haven&#8217;t deposited a blog in anyone&#8217;s general direction for over a week.  And so I ask myself, what would you like to read about today?  And I shrug hopelessly, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;   And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmbennetts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7503589&amp;post=3499&amp;subd=mmbennetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of the Duel, Part II ~ From Insult to Bandaging</title>
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		<dc:creator>M M Bennetts</dc:creator>
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