My name is Dr Lizzie Rogers, and I’m a writer and an historian of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, specialising in women’s history and historic houses, alongside their portrayal on screen, and Jane Austen.

I am a freelance historian, consultant, researcher and writer, and have worked in a variety of roles from museums to cataloguing antiques, to lecturing and being a tour guide, consulting on productions and designing courses. If you’d like to work with me, I’d love to hear from you – please send me a message here.

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I’ve loved writing, and writing about history, since I was pretty young – I blame my parents, who always took us to castles, museums and historic houses growing up. I found these places so interesting that when I was nine I wrote a “history” of the house I grew up in… somehow, it brought together Cleopatra, Robin Hood, and many royal visits… imaginative and inaccurate, it set me on a path to doing real historical research and writing about it along the way.

I have been writing on this blog for almost a decade. It began as a place to post my thoughts and ideas about the places I was visiting, and it now gives me great joy to write and post as I’m researching. Most of all, I love indulging my obsession for Jane Austen. Fun fact: I was named after Elizabeth Bennet, so I like to think my love for Austen is my parents’ fault.

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I’m currently working on my first book project – which brings together Austen, the country house and the real women who experienced life in the English country house in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It’s a labour of love, based on my PhD thesis (completed October 2020), “Women’s Curiosity and Collecting in England 1680-1820”, and my subsequent research into the experiences of the lives of women within the country house, as well as the world of Jane Austen and her novels.

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