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Links to 1819 Pages on Other Web Sites; Links Last Verified 5/1/4; Last Update 5/1/4

See Wikipedia's 1819 Page and the 1819 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1819 Page

See paintings and prints made in 1819, such as a plate from The Tour of Doctor Syntax (8th ed., 1819); a plate from Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes; a plate from History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle; Casper David Friedrich's On Board a Sailing Ship, (1818-9); Casper David Friedrich's Chalk Cliffs on Rugen, (1818-9)

Novels Set in 1819

Cartland, Barbara. Call of the Heart. The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library 23. NY:Bantam Books, 1975.

---. The Cruel Count. The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library 28. NY: BantamBooks,1975.

---. Love, Lords, and Lady-birds. The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library 87. NY:Bantam Books, 1978.

---. The Saint and the Sinner. The Bantam Barbara Cartland Library 78. NY:BantamBooks, 1977.

Kingsley, Katherine. [Julia Kay Kendall]. In the Wake of the Wind. NY: Dell, 1996.

---. Kingof Hearts. NY: Signet, 1993.

Rasley, Alicia. A Midsummer's Delight. A Zebra Holiday Regency Romance. NewYork: Zebra, 1993.

Simmons, Deborah. The Devil Earl. Harlequin Historical. Toronto: Harlequin,1996.

Walker, Linda. My Lady's Deception. New York: Zebra, 1990.

Portrait of 1819

Portrait of Woman (1819) by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun PaulUnderwood Collection

Dresses of 1819 from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce,Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics

Morning Dress. I love this image, for it makes me think thisis how many women authorslooked as they wrote their works. Doris Langley Moore writes of this image: "Morning dress ofembroidered clearlawn, the cap a Frenchcornette ... A morning dress of clear lawn trimmed with embroidered frills and mancherons, andblueribbon headings. The cap is a French cornette with a high caul" (The Gallery of Fashion1790-1822 from Plates by Heideloff andAckermann with Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell and Notes on the Plates by Doris LangleyMoore. Batsford Colour Books. London: B.T. Batsford, 1949. 12).


Morning Dress. The cap here is called the Parisian mob, andit is tied with a pink ribbonand hassome fake flowers trimming it. The lady sits on her cashmere shawl in her muslin morning gown.She wears leather gloves as she reads her letter. Nine rows of pink ribbon and one row of buttonstrim the bottom of her gown. Buttons were still quite expensive, so this trim would indicatewealth. The little cape on the collar is a pelerine, and these became longer and much more common in the1830s.


Left: Walking Dress. Boots of grey silk and black leather peakfromunderthis grey dress trimmedwith white crossing bands joined with roses. The lady also has a beautiful cashmire shawl. Thebustis accentuated by the white cloth bindings around the chest called Athenian braces. The hat ismodelled after men's hats of the period and is called a French walking hat.

Right: Walking Dress featuring Spencer. Remove the spencer and hat, and the lady is in white muslinand a white cornette-style cap, typical morning dress. The spencer of green is designed to drawattention to the bust. The hat is of green satin with dashing plumes.


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