An Elegant Maddness

Just finished An Elegant Maddness:High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray. I really liked the author's cheeky flair for words. She writes not as a musty poacher of old diaries and church records but as a breathlessly wry reporter dispatching accounts live from the front, in the sort of amused style that seems to want to mirror Jane Austen. She chronicles the outlandish fashions, the political scandals, the opulent parties and the often hypocritical libertinism hidden behind the famous British reserve. Unfortunately she has this huge aversion to dates, or maybe she assuems a degree of familiarity I just don't have with the era, so I'm not sure where a lot of stuff fits in chronologically. Did the Regent have this mistress ebfore he had that archietct redo Carlton House? That sort of question.

I'd recommend it to folks wanting to know more about the era. I'll probably be renewing it from the library a few times as I mull over the era.

Lexicon Update

Well we're done the D's and making good show on the E's. Some darn good stuff. And I'm proud of myself for keeping my tinkering at the minimum. Some of the stfuf I'd never have invented for my game, but it makes an organic sense that I like, so I'll be using it when I run Nobilis again.