My summers were spent running barefoot around the farm.

Baths were taken in a metal washtub in the kitchen, with the water drawn from the well and heated on a wood-burning stove. The walls in my house were standing due to the layers of wallpaper, and the frigid winter winds seemed to always find a home in my bedroom. I grew up in the 1980s in a tiny town of five hundred people in northern Missouri. We even have the same sort of nontraditional backgrounds. So, basically, I love the Essex sisters because they’re not perfect-in fact, they’re rather like me. Can you imagine me in a Regency ballroom? I talk a bit too loudly, my hands wildly flying, and I find nearly everything funny. The actor portraying me would have to play an exaggerated personality who falls into ridiculous situations of her own making.

To my utter dismay, I have come to realize that Trouble! would be an appropriate title for a sitcom about my life. I particularly love the ease with which they create scandal. I’m a huge fan of all Eloisa’s books, but I chose the Essex sisters for this companion because, frankly, I adore them. Hello! My name is Jody, and I’m the author of the Essex Sisters Companion Guide that you’re about to read, which means that I’m crazy, eccentric, and impassioned enough to think that there are other people out there like me-people who love Eloisa James’s series enough that they want to live in her world rather than their own, and think it would be fun to learn more about how Eloisa came up with the characters and what the clothes in the period were really like, not to mention read original material found only here that I either wrangled from Eloisa’s files or begged her to create! had done his best as guardian of four penniless girls, and it wasn’t his fault that they had turned out to be the sort of young women who create scandals with the ease with which other ladies embroider handkerchiefs. Part Four-Attending the Theatre by Jody Gayle “Regency Fashion Categories” by Candice Hernĭebrett’s Peerage of England, Scotland, and Irelandĭepicting Life in London, with the Help of La Belle Assemblée Ruffles, Ruffles, and Then Even More Ruffles! Part Two-The Essex Sisters and What They Wore: A Fashion Fairytale by Jody Gayle “A Heroine Whose Story Needs Telling” by Franzeca Drouin Introduction to Essex Sisters Series Extra ContentĪ Midsummer Night’s Disgrace: A Brand-New Story in the Essex Sisters WorldĪ Final Chapter to the Essex Sisters Series The Place of Research in Writing Historical Romances “When the Hero Puts on a Dress” by Anne N. “On Marriages of Convenience, Arranged Marriages, Fake Marriages, and All Sorts of Delicious Marriages”

Part One-The Boundaries of a Book by Eloisa James The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide

Pleasure for pleasure by eloisa james