The Regency Canvas

Clean Regency romance

Henry’s stories, now on the page.

The stories you hear every week on The Regency Canvas, written out in full. Four volumes, twelve complete stories in each, with historical notes and questions for reflection.

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The four volumes of The Regency Canvas, fanned out side by side

What’s inside every volume

12 complete stories

Each story is told from beginning to end, just as Henry tells it, with nothing cut short.

Historical notes

Short panels, like the facts on screen, that explain the customs, places and manners behind each story.

Questions for reflection

A few gentle questions after every story, to think over on your own or talk about with friends.

Three formats, including Large Print

EPUB for e-readers and tablets, a PDF that looks like a printed book, and a Large Print PDF with bigger type.

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The four volumes

Each volume is $6.99. Open “See the twelve stories” to read what is inside.

Cover of The Regency Canvas, Volume I

Volume I

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  1. The Place CardsFor nine years Emmeline Rook has kept the accounts, the linen and the seating plans at Ashcombe, and for the great ball she writes all one hundred and thirty nine place cards by hand.
  2. The Margin of Page SevenCecily Broome corrects every page of music at Wraysbury by candlelight, but she may only play before eleven in the morning, when nobody is down to hear her.
  3. The Silver ClaspFrances Dallow's father left her one thing in his will: her mother's pearls, fastened with a plain silver clasp shaped like an egg that Frances chose herself at eleven.
  4. The Water MeadowsSince the morning after her mother's funeral, Rosamund Standish has quietly run Ledwell, its rents, its ledgers and its sixty acres of water meadow, while her pretty younger sister is introduced to the whole county as Miss Standish.
  5. The Twelfth CupHester Aldis has kept house at Layham since she was fifteen, while her stepmother presides over the tea table and the county admires everything Hester's hands have made.
  6. The Brown BookFor fourteen years Eleanor Pryor has written the estate books of Fairleigh, first at her father's elbow and then, when his sight begins to fail, in his name.
  7. The Brass WeightsSusannah Corbett keeps her late father's apothecary's shop on Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury, under her brother's name, and the town calls her a shopgirl.
  8. The Mended BlueHarriet Coulson has done the mending at Cranfold Lodge since she was fifteen, and no account book in that house has ever carried a line for it.
  9. The CopybookFor eleven winters Marianne Selby has sat by the door at the Blandford assembly, a penniless ward who keeps her guardian's household book and copies out his letters.
  10. The Modiste's BookRachel Hannaford cut eleven of the gowns at the Duke of Halberton's ball, and on the night itself she is waiting at the tradesmen's door in the rain with the last box.
  11. The Glove He Took OffHester Crowe keeps house for her brother in Corve Street, Ludlow, and does every quiet thing in it that nobody thinks to thank her for.
  12. The Letter She WroteFor two years Charlotte Kelsall has written every letter that goes from her mother's small house in Suffolk to the Duke of Wrenford, and her pretty younger sister has signed every one.
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Cover of The Regency Canvas, Volume II

Volume II

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  1. The Chipped CupAnne Beckwith has kept the still room at Wychford Court for seven years without wages: a cold stone room, a shelf of jars, and one chipped cup that is hers to drink from.
  2. The Green RibbonFor four years Susannah Vane has walked eight miles a day to read to a duchess who is going blind, believing she goes as her aunt's charity.
  3. The Third VariationCordelia Wexford has written four hundred pages of music in a cold room over a stable, and not one person at Cleeve Marney has thought to ask what she does there all day.
  4. The Halfpenny LoafFor four years Alethea Merriott has paid for the village school at Gedding Ash out of her own small income, and every penny of it is entered in the parish book under two initials.
  5. The Green BaizeBefore she died, Lady Stancliffe made her daughter lay nine small portraits along the edge of a counterpane and say every face aloud, and then she put in writing that they were hers.
  6. The Cool Side of the PillowWhen three London physicians give the Dowager Duchess of Wroxton up for dead and drive away, the only person left in the sickroom is Georgiana Vane, a poor relation with an apothecary's training and her dead father's silver watch.
  7. The Working CopyFor three years Sophia Rennell has been turning a rare Latin herbal into English at her uncle's house in Leominster, filling its margins with pencil.
  8. The Schedule of the DebtSilas Trevanion owes the Duke of Harlaston's estate four thousand pounds for a canal that was never finished, and he has decided there is one thing left in his house worth that much.
  9. Two NotesFor eighteen months Kitty Ferrers has gone into a frightened colt's box at six every morning, while the cousin who owns the yard stayed away in London.
  10. 61 NotesVerity Cheselden spent seven months drawing the new east wing at Ashcombe from her late father's forty one books, while her brother told the county the London architects had done it.
  11. Not Lost, But Gone BeforeAmelia Chase has one thing left of her father, a mourning ring her mother left her by name, and she keeps it wrapped in paper in her workbox in her aunt's house.
  12. No Column for MercyIn the summer that never came, Beatrix Hartwell quietly paid seven families' rents out of her own small fortune so that nobody would be turned off the land, and she told no one, not even her brother.
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Cover of The Regency Canvas, Volume III

Volume III

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  1. The Hour of Only FrenchFor six years Charlotte and Jane Wingfield have taught their aunt's four youngest children in a cold room over the laundry, while their aunt tells all Norfolk she brought the little ones on herself.
  2. A Maker Signs Her WorkFor nine years Honora Sedley has painted the portraits that make Wychford admired across Kent, in a cold schoolroom before the house is up, and let a fashionable drawing master sign every one so that her three motherless cousins keep their lessons.
  3. Four Winters by the FireFrances Kettering is thirty, poor, and a burden to her brother's household, and at every assembly in the county she is sent to sit by the fire with a blind old widow nobody else will trouble to speak to.
  4. Seeming and BeingFor eleven years Marianne Vane has written every German and French letter the Wraxalls send abroad, out of her dead mother's books in a cold room over the scullery, while her pretty cousin Selina is dressed up and praised as the scholar of the family.
  5. The Name in the LaceCassandra Neave's mother left her one thing of her own, an old veil of honeysuckle lace with a mend in one corner, and for years Cassandra has kept it aired while her aunt kept her as an unpaid servant at Ashwell.
  6. Two Hands in the BookFor eleven years Harriet Cardew has kept the still-room at Harcourt, and every dish the county praises at its table, above all the famous garnet cordial, has come out of her hands while her aunt takes the bow.
  7. The Coat He KeptEleanor Rushton has been the useful one at Wraithe for nine years, minding the linen, the sick tenants and her aunt's dying mother, and tonight she has been told to keep to the back stairs while a duke comes to dine.
  8. The New LeatTwo harvests have drowned on the low ground at Ashcombe, and six cottage families have nearly drowned with them, while Rosamund Denham's uncle holds her estate in trust and writes letters about his hard luck.
  9. The PortionFor six years Clarissa Vane has sat against the wall at every county assembly, promised, everyone understands, to a Mr Aldous Fenn of Fenn Hall in the north, and so never asked to dance.
  10. The Cold FrameFor ten winters Isobel Ashford has nursed a dying rose in her grandmother's cold frame, unthanked and unseen, while the house treats her as the poor cousin who likes to potter.
  11. In a Dead Woman's Own HandFor four years Henrietta has read to her blind great-aunt by the fire, sat up through the bad nights, and asked for nothing, while the rest of the family visits only when it suits them.
  12. The Carriage at the DoorSince the carriage overturned on the Marlborough road, Clemence Aylward has walked with a crutch and been kept home from every assembly, always, her mother says, for her own comfort.
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Cover of The Regency Canvas, Volume IV

Volume IV

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  1. The Screen in the CornerAt Wrenfield Park, Honor Vesey sits behind a painted screen in the corner of the drawing room with the companions and the cousins no hostess wishes to introduce, and answers every foreign letter the Earl cannot read.
  2. The Door No One Would OpenFive months a widow and without a penny, Thomasin Bray is sent to Carrow Abbey to be kept out of the way, and given the room across from a door that has been locked for twenty years.
  3. The Card at the WallDamaris Loxley has been the useful cousin at Ganton Park for nine years, and every fortnight at the Cranmere assembly she is sent to sit by the wall beside a deaf old colonel nobody troubles to talk to.
  4. The Foot of the TableRosanna Trant was widowed before her first year of marriage was out, and in her mother's house she wears the grey, keeps the accounts and sits at the foot of the table.
  5. The Chapel at DawnFor six years Tabitha Aldworth has been told her voice is too large for a drawing room, so she keeps quiet and turns the pages for her cousins.
  6. The Chair by the DoorHester Ives has been the poor cousin at Denhall for twelve years, pouring at the card tables and writing letters nobody thanks her for.
  7. The Candle in the WindowRuth Marlow is a curate's widow of four and forty, kept in the gate lodge of her brother-in-law's hall on sufferance.
  8. From the Losing SideMercy Lanyon has been her aunt's companion for fifteen years, and the one thing she owns outright is her chess, played one move a letter with an old country rector.
  9. A Girl's SashFor six years Hannah Lisle has been kept in short sleeves and a girl's sash, filling other people's glasses and raising her three half-sisters, while her stepmother tells the county she is far too young to be out.
  10. Up the Back StairsBridget Ingram, a soldier's widow, has scoured the coppers at Brayford Court for eleven years and the house has never troubled to learn her name.
  11. The Lady of HarburyAdelaide, the deaf dowager Countess of Everleigh, reads every cruel word her stepson says about her off his face in the sideboard glass.
  12. The Finest Needle in Three CountiesEsther Webb has cut the county's finest gowns for nine years from a dressmaker's back room, and no one out front has ever been shown her face.
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Look inside

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The opening page of The Place Cards, the first story in Volume I
Where a story begins
A page with a Historical Note panel about bread and India rubber
A Historical Note
The same story in the Large Print edition
The Large Print edition

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About Henry

Henry is the storyteller of The Regency Canvas. Every week on YouTube he tells a new story of Regency England: a quiet, overlooked young woman, the people who take her for granted, and the moment someone finally sees her for who she is.

These books gather those stories in a form you can keep, read at your own pace, and come back to whenever you like.

Questions, answered

What exactly do I get?
Each volume holds twelve complete stories, each followed by historical notes and questions for reflection. Every volume comes in three files: an EPUB, a PDF and a Large Print PDF. The box set gives you all four volumes, 48 stories, in all three formats. These are ebooks; there is no printed edition.
Are these the same stories Henry tells on YouTube?
Yes. They are the stories from The Regency Canvas, written out in full, with historical notes and reflection questions added for the books.
Are the stories clean?
Yes. They are gentle, clean Regency romances, with no explicit scenes and no strong language.
Can I read them on my Kindle?
Yes. On your computer or phone, go to amazon.com/sendtokindle, sign in with your Amazon account, and send the EPUB file. A few minutes later it appears in your Kindle library, on your Kindle and in the Kindle app. Our device guide shows each step.
Can I read them on my iPad or iPhone?
Yes. Tap the EPUB file, then the Share button (the square with an arrow), and choose Books. The book opens in Apple Books and stays in your library.
Is there a large print edition?
Yes. Every volume includes a Large Print PDF, set in bigger type on a larger page, for easier reading on a computer or for printing at home. On a Kindle, iPad or Kobo you can also make the letters of the EPUB as large as you like.
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