Carolyn Miller

Stories of hope, heart and humor

"...clearly an author to watch. Her debut Regency rockets off the page with clever, snappy repartee, creating an exciting and fast-paced read."

LIBRARY JOURNAL

"...Carolyn Miller’s writing style is reminiscent of Jane Austen, with a modern sense of wit and spunk."

AMBER STOCKTON

author of more than 20 novels,including the best selling Liberty's Promise

"With just the right touch of inspiration and historical detail, Carolyn transports you back to Regency England."

CARRIE TURANSKY

award winning author of

A Refuge at Highland Hall and Shine Like the Dawn

BOOKS

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Regency Brides: A Legacy of Grace

Christian Regeny romance The Captivating Lady Charlotte

THE ELUSIVE

MISS ELLISON

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THE CAPTIVATING LADY CHARLOTTE

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THE DISHONORABLE MISS DELANCEY

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The Audiobooks of The Elusive Miss Ellison, The Captivating Lady Charlotte and The Dishonorable Miss DeLancey are all available from Tantor media. Read by British actress Anna Parker-Naples, these stories come alive in a fresh way.

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Regency Brides: The Promise of Hope

WINNING MISS WINTHROP

Can two hearts learn to overcome misunderstandings from the past?

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MISS SERENA'S SECRET

Can she ever learn to trust the biggest flirt in England?

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THE MAKING OF MRS HALE

Will a runaway marriage ever be redeemed?

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Regency Brides: The Daughters of Aynsley

A HERO FOR MISS HATHERLEIGH

Propriety or protection -

that is the question...

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UNDERESTIMATING MISS CECILIA

Will shy, sweet Cecilia's neighbour ever notice her?

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MISLEADING

MISS VERITY

Has the hoyden with a heart of gold finally met her match?

Releasing Nov 26 2019

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Contemporary Series: Independence Islands Novella Collection

Join me and 5 other authors in the Independence Islands novella collection. This new contemporary series, releasing in 2020, sees six mobile business owners find life and love on these islands off the South Carolina / Georgia coast.

RESTORING FAIRHAVEN

Sam Green of Greener Gardens gets more than she bargains for when she takes on restoring the gardens of a reclusive writer whose novels about unrequited love are bestsellers. Can she help this widower discover happily-ever-afters can be found in

both real life and fiction?

Releasing December 2020 ~ Preorder available soon

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ABOUT ME:

Carolyn Miller, Christian Regency romance author

I'm an Inspirational romance author who lives in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia with my husband and four children. I love reading (especially Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer), music, films, gardens, art, travel and food. I really enjoy creating worlds where flawed people can grow in faith, hope and love. I am represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube agency.

FAVORITE THINGS:

Books:

* Pride & Prejudice; Persuasion - Jane Austen

* The Blue Castle - LM Montgomery

* Frederica; The Nonesuch - Georgette Heyer

* My Stubborn Heart - Becky Wade

* The Everstone Chronicles - Dawn Crandall

* Shine Like the Dawn - Carrie Turansky

Music:

* Shawn McDonald, Jars of Clay, Tobymac

* Sting, U2, John Mayer, Coldplay

Films:

* Strictly Ballroom - classic Australian film

* Emma (2009 BBC miniseries, with Jonny Lee Miller)

* Persuasion (2007, with Rupert Penry Jones - oh, the music, the angst!)

* James Bond & Jason Bourne - tough guys & exotic locales :)

* Much Ado About Nothing (2012) Joss Whedon, B&W - masterful!

* Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) - glorious

* Austenland - how to meet Mr Darcy, modern girl style!

* Ladies in Black (2018) - a gorgeous retro look at Sydney's coming of age

* The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - a sumptuous setting!

Check out these images from my recent trip to the US & Canada

Click to see enlarged images from my 2015 trip to England

REGENCY

The Regency era refers specifically to the years 1811-1820 when the Prince Regent (later King George IV) was ruling in place of his father, King George III, who was deemed mad and unfit to rule. The Regency is a sub-period of the Georgian era (from 1714-1837, when a series of kings named George ruled England), which preceded the advent of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837.

The Regency era is known for:

*the continued wars in the Peninsular against France

* for the exploits of the Duke of Wellington

* Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' (published in 1813)

* Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' (published in 1816)

* 'Ivanhoe' by Walter Scott (published in 1819).

It was a time of excess (such as the extravagances of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton), adventure and exploration ('Elgin's marbles' - Greek artefacts brought to London by Lord Elgin - were first displayed at the British Museum in 1817), and social upheaval, such as the Luddite uprisings, as rural workers fought for their traditional ways of life to be maintained against the rise of industrialisation.

Social division was strictly upheld, the social order ranging from royalty to aristocracy to gentry to the middle and lower classes. A person 'in trade' tended to be stigmatised by the upper classes, whilst the servants, labourers, and poor could only dream to have life be so fine. Yet despite the warfare and social unrest, this was also a time of great achievement in culture and technological advancement, leading to the Britain of today.

^ The Royal Pavilion, Brighton.

A magnificent, exotic structure used as the Regent's summer holiday residence, designed for entertaining on a sumptuous scale. Referred to in 'The Dishonorable Miss DeLancey'

^ 12th Century Church of St Mary & Holy Cross, Alderminster, 4 miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon.

During the Regency period, the church helped govern social mores - even if not everybody practiced what was preached. Men of faith, such as

William Wilberforce, helped change society for the better, such as petitioning for the end of slavery.

Regency Slang

Regency slang (cant) is something that makes reading a Regency novel so much fun! But much like the phrases used by today's teenagers can prove bewildering to different generations, there can be an element of decoding necessary to understand the idiom of a world from two centuries ago.

While some forms of slang can be found in Jane Austen's works, Georgette Heyer is often considered the queen of Regency cant. Although she wrote in the 1930s to 1960s, her exceptional research skills resulted in a vast collection of letters and diaries from that time period, so her use of slang gives a sense of authenticity that makes her novels such a delight to read.

Some examples include:

* 'a bag of moonshine' = a lot of nothing

* 'doing it much too brown' = to overly exaggerate or lie

* 'to cast up one's accounts' = to be sick

* 'mutton-headed' & 'buffle-headed' = to be stupid or foolish

* 'hoyden' = tomboyish girl

* 'a green girl' = an inexperienced and naive young woman

* 'leg-shackled' = to be married

* 'a diamond of the first water' = an exceptionally beautiful woman

* a 'chit' = a (forward) young girl

* a 'Bluestocking' = educated, bookish woman

* 'the ton' = the highest of high society, usually the aristocracy