Regency Words: Tea and Turn Out
In May 1823 the Theatre Royal debuted an entertainment called “Tea and Turn Out; Or, Performers and Fashionables.” Years later in 1829, this comedic anectdote Continue
In May 1823 the Theatre Royal debuted an entertainment called “Tea and Turn Out; Or, Performers and Fashionables.” Years later in 1829, this comedic anectdote Continue
I am re-reading Emma, and there is much talk of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill as having met in Weymouth, along with the story of Continue
This is the forty-third post in our Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Continue
The young lady’s book: a manual of elegant recreations, exercises, and pursuits. (1829). United Kingdom: (n.p.). Martin, T. (1813). The Circle of the Mechanical Arts, Containing Practical Treatises on the Continue
Wright, T., Evans, R. H. (1851). Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray: Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George Continue
Royal Navy officer, explorer who participated in the Vancouver Expedition (and notoriously feuded with leader George Vancouver), and overall “half-mad lord”, Lieutenant Thomas Pitt, the Continue
This footnote appears in reference to this lecture: Which appears in: Thackeray, W. M. (1913). The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press. In Continue
Beyond the big three furniture and cabinent makers, the Georgian and early Regency eras had a wealth of cabinent and furniture makers ready to supply Continue
Plate and description appeared in the July 1828 edition of The Ladies’ Monthly Museum. Not enough Regency films feature ladies in turbans (or bonnets, for Continue