Book Candice as Your Next Speaker

Candice is a popular speaker on Regency and Jane Austen topics, especially related to fashion. She has given presentations to libraries, book groups, women’s clubs, college classes, museums, and several Jane Austen organizations. Her most popular topics include Regency fashion, Regency silhouettes, mourning practices in the time of Jane Austen, and many more. Visit her presentations page for more information. And see what people are saying about her talks.  Contact Candice for her availability.

Have You Visited Candice’s Regency Collections?

Candice is a passionate collector of Georgian and Regency period antiques, and shares many of her collections here on this site, including fashion prints, fans, jewelry, silhouettes, perfume bottles, and many others. She also shares items from her collections on Instagram. Follow her!

Collections in Print

See some of the books and articles that have included images of fashion prints and other items from Candice’s collections.

Regency World at candicehern.com

Featured in Candice's Regency World

Promenade Dress, August 1818

"Petticoat of cambric muslin, handsomely trimmed of worked muslin of the wheel pattern, and two rows of open work...

Portable Writing Set

This favorite item from my collections is a miniature portable writing set, c1770. The tiny tortoiseshell box measures only 2½” by 1½” — so small it might have easily been carried in a lady’s reticule. It is lined in red velvet, and all the fittings are sterling silver. Inside is everything needed to pen a quick note, perhaps when traveling or otherwise away from pen and ink. As you can see in the image below, there is a tiny ink bottle and matching pounce bottle, with remnants of...