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Regency Customs: A Receipt for Courtship

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This 1805 caricature of courtship gives a simple recipe for love and marriage (by Lurie & Whittle of Fleet Street): Two or three dears, and Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Ladies Taking Snuff

By Anne | January 12, 2018 - 7:40 am |January 23, 2018 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Fashion, Regency Health and Medicine

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One of my favorite schticks in a Heyer novel is in Regency Buck when Judith is taught how to take snuff. It sums up Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Debates for the Ladies

By Anne | January 2, 2018 - 8:17 am |January 9, 2018 Regency Culture and Society

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Appearing in the January 1807 Lady’s Monthly Museum, a debate about whether courtships are likely to produce happy marriages is presented. I remember hearing this Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

By Anne | December 20, 2017 - 7:39 am |January 8, 2018 Regency Advertisements, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Men

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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit. These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue →