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Regency Hot Spots: Sans Pareil Theatre

By Anne | March 8, 2018 - 9:42 am |July 24, 2023 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Pastimes

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What would later become the Adelphi Theatre, the Sans Pareil (Without Compare) Theatre was founded in 1806 in The Strand by colour merchant John Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Miscellaneous Reflections on the Conduct of Women

By Anne | February 28, 2018 - 7:55 am |March 6, 2018 Regency Culture and Society

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This collection of maxims about women in the Regency appeared in the February 1806 edition of La Belle Assemblee. I particular love the comparison between 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 →

Regency Men: A Letter from Son to Mother about his Lady Love

By Anne | December 16, 2017 - 7:41 am |December 28, 2017 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Men

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Perhaps demonstrating the timeless maxim that no woman is ever good enough for a mother’s son, this heartfelt letter appeared in the December 1803 issue Continue →