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Regency Culture and Society: A Ladies Challenge

By Anne | February 26, 2020 - 11:39 am |March 24, 2020 Regency Advertisements, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Women of Character

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This anecdote appeared in the 1823 The Percy Anecdotes. What an absolute treasure this lady was. Although her advertisement appeared in the papers purportedly in Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Sarah Guppy

By Anne | January 16, 2020 - 6:50 am |February 11, 2020 Regency Science and Invention, Regency Women of Character

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Author, engineer, inventor, and all around bad a&* woman, Sarah Guppy nee Beach seemed to have a fevered imagination for solving a menagerie of problems. Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Mary Martha Pearson

By Anne | August 18, 2019 - 7:21 am |August 28, 2019 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Women of Character

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Born Mary Martha Dutton, Mary Pearson would grow to be a renowned portrait painter whose work still hangs in many of the esteemed galleries Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Mary Anning

By Anne | April 2, 2019 - 6:54 am |April 30, 2019 Regency Science and Invention, Regency Women of Character

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A “pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector” Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme, England and was the first explorer of what is now called Continue →