Fashion Plate (Promenade Dress). England, London, October 1, 1824. Rudolph Ackermann. Los Angeles County Museum of Art [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
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“Oh, do skip over the people I know, Reginald.” She huffed. “Why must you insist on being such a trial?”
“Because I am much like you?”
“Reginald Arthur Fitzwilliam, do your duty as you should,” Lady Matlock retorted.
Westonbury chuckled. “My full name and not even five minutes have passed. That must be a record.”
“Indeed,” his mother replied dryly but with a smile for her eldest son. “Now, get on with it. And do it properly.”
[from Loving Lydia, book 3 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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4 thoughts on “Promenade Dress 1824 (Rudolph Ackermann)”
Somehow I missed this post. Sorry. I love that dress and hat. Lady Matlock and Westonbury… oh, my. We knew growing up if the full name was used… we had pushed mother to her limits and we were in for it. I love this Westonbury. Sorry I missed the post.
Oh, yes! The full name was never a good thing! 🙂
I like that dress. It looks comfortable and I think I might could wear it! Pretty too!
It does look comfortable! I’m not sure I would like the puffy parts of the sleeves but other than that it does look wearable 🙂
Somehow I missed this post. Sorry. I love that dress and hat. Lady Matlock and Westonbury… oh, my. We knew growing up if the full name was used… we had pushed mother to her limits and we were in for it. I love this Westonbury. Sorry I missed the post.
Oh, yes! The full name was never a good thing! 🙂
I like that dress. It looks comfortable and I think I might could wear it! Pretty too!
It does look comfortable! I’m not sure I would like the puffy parts of the sleeves but other than that it does look wearable 🙂