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“Christmas” in Austen’s Novels, a Guest Post from Lelia Eye

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Regina Jeffers

This post originally appeared on the Austen Authors’ blog on December 16, 2021. (Note: December 16, 1775, is Austen’s birthday.) Enjoy! In pondering what to focus on for my December blog post, I naturally gravitated toward Christmas. Once known as … Continue reading →

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Do You Have the Time to Learn More of Horology?

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Regina Jeffers

From Wikipedia, we are given this definition of “horology.”  “Horology (via Latin horologium from Greek ὡρολόγιον, from ὥρα hṓra “hour; time” and -o- interfix and suffix -logy; lit. “the study of time”) is the art or science of measuring time. Clocks, … Continue reading →

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