Literature or a love of sewing lured many of us into this peculiar form of virtual time-travel. These areas, unlike other aspects of the Regency on line, tend to be covered exhaustively elsewhere, so we'll offer only the choicest links here.

Costume

• The Costume Site - links for more than just Regency costuming, of course.


• Jessamyn's Regency Costuming Companion offers inspirational images, advice on patterns, practical guides to throwing your own costume together, details on creating the perfect Regency wedding, and thoughts on how to find places in your area to which you could wear your brand new costume.


• The Jas. Townsend web site offers historical patterns appropriate for not only the English Regency events, but for the American Federalist period.


• The Historic Costume Research home page, by Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier, offers access to Ladnier's online resources for researching period costume for private individuals, authors, designers, theatre, film and television. Ladnier displays her "bookshelf" of costume links on this page.


• La Mode Bagatelle, "gracefully rendered historical patterns by Susan Pasco and Tamara Fidler, costumiers", offers the best patterns for Regency garments we've seen yet. The "Regency Wardrobe Pattern" provides instructions for an entire Regency wardrobe, complete with embroidery transfers. Unfortunately, they have gone out of business, but the patterns are still available from other vendors.


• The Regency Page is a marvelous Regency resource, replete not only with costuming links but also with links to period literature and art.


• Lavolta Press, the publishing house headed by vintage dance instructors Fran Grimble and Allan Terry, offers several fine volumes that focus on Regency costume and other historical periods.


• Satin Shadow Designs makes custom historical costume, including Regency and Georgian for ladies and gentlemen.

Jane Austen

• The Jane Austen Society of North America is the Austen group for those in the world of academia, or those simply interested in the hard-core literary and critical underpinnings of Austen's works.


• The Jane Austen Information Page, an exhaustive and seductive links page with complete texts for Austen works, could keep an Austen obsessive happy for days on end. We enjoy the Top Ten Austen Songs and Top Ten Austen Punishments pages.

Georgette Heyer

In a sense, Heyer was responsible for the Regency dance movement. Back when Regency dancing started, as distinct from the English country dancing torch carried by groups such as the Country Dance and Song Society, it began at a science-fiction convention, sparked by fans of Heyer, not of Austen.

• The Georgette Heyer Mailing List Companion: "Georgette Heyer is Jane Austen on Rollerblades!" says listmember Helen Garth. A slew of Heyer links from the Heyer fans who can take off their in-line skates long enough to sit at the computer.


• The Georgette Heyer Homepage: We particularly recommend the page devoted to Georgette Heyer's dislike of the color puce.