Vintage Blues

 

Smiling at a New Year

 

My new's year most important wish: SLAVA UKRAINI

 

The Virtue of Scandal

Detail of The Governess by Richard Redgrave, 1844
Victoria and Albert Museum London

THE SCANDALOUS LIFE OF A TRUE LADY

by Barbara Metzger

narrated by Pippa Rathborne

 is now available on Audible UK and Audible US

The mightier weapon

The audiobook version of Barbara Metzger's
enchanting Regency Romance

MISS LOCKHARTE'S LETTERS

is now available on Audible, Amazon and iTunes

 NARRATED BY PIPPA RATHBORNE

 

Lady Wallace in BRIDGERTON

 I was delighted to play Lady Wallace in Season 2 of Bridgerton,
seen here gossiping - somewhat maliciously - with other guests at a glittering garden party in Episode 6.

 

Legacy

 

 Captain Kidd in New York Harbor
oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris c.1920. Image source: Wikimedia

"I think, my dear, that you can’t ever believe him until you do believe in yourself.
For if you’ve no faith in yourself, you can’t have faith in any other person, can you?”

AUDIOBOOK
OF THE LEGACY AND OTHER STORIES
BY EDITH LAYTON
NARRATED BY PIPPA RATHBORNE
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"I know it’s not what’s done, but I think it’s what I have to do—don’t you?”
She waited, expectantly. She knew what she yearned to do, and it was a mad thing.

Emma Hamilton
by George Romney, oil on canvas, c.1785
© National Portrait Gallery, London

 

A GREEN ROMANCE

A STREAM IN THE WOOD by Asher Brown Durand, 1865. Image: WGA

 No one believed, no one cared. Without that ancient forest,
so full of history, so full of mystery, a bit more of
the world’s magic would be lost.

 

Pippa Rathborne reads Barbara Metzger's
ecological Regency Romance

AN ENCHANTED AFFAIR

"She’s insane,” Sir Alfred raged on. “She talks to fairies.
She lives in a dreamworld in that forest of yours."

MIDSUMMER EVE by Edward Robert Hughes c. 1908  

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