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Regency Dish: Chicken with Lemon Sauce

By Anne | March 20, 2025 - 8:03 am |March 15, 2025 Regency Dish
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Recipe appeared in The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined Comprising Ample Directions for Preparing Every Article Requisite for Furnishing the Tables of the Nobleman, Gentleman, Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, food, receipts, recipes, regency, Regency England

Regency Fashion: Men’s Dress Coats and Pantaloons

By Anne | March 18, 2025 - 8:50 am |March 15, 2025 Regency Fashion, Regency Men
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Above is a plate and description from The whole art of dress! or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, dress coats, evening dress, pantaloons, regency, Regency England, regency fashion, regency men, waistcoat

Regency Culture and Society: Men and Manners (27)

By Anne | March 16, 2025 - 8:45 am |March 10, 2025 Regency Culture and Society
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This is the twenty-seventh post in our Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Continue →

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Regency Women of Character: Henrietta Caroline Bentley

By Anne | March 14, 2025 - 6:38 am |March 5, 2025 Regency Science and Invention, Regency Women of Character
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Henrietta Caroline Bentley received a patent for a “bed for invalids, which may be made and the linen changed without inconveniencing the patient” (Stanley, 1995). Continue →

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Alexandra Vasti: In Which Winnie Halifax is Utterly Ruined

By Anne | March 12, 2025 - 8:19 am |March 2, 2025 2-3 Flames, Alexandra Vasti, Authors, Book Review, Funny Regencies, Novellas
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The third and final novella in the Halifax Hellions series was my favorite.  Winnie has stepped out on her own, only by telling a few, Continue →

Tagged historical romance, historical romance novels, historical romance review, regency, Regency England, Regency romance, sexy

Regency Reader Questions: Widows and Compromising Positions

By Anne | March 8, 2025 - 7:33 am |March 19, 2025 Regency Reader Questions
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Moniker/Name MaryAnne Source of Question Just curious Your Question Could a widow be caught in a compromising position and be pressured to marry, like what Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, compromise, merry widows, Regency England, regency fashion, regency women, widows

Regency Health and Medicine: Cholera Pandemic 1 and 2

By Anne | March 6, 2025 - 7:58 am |February 11, 2025 Regency Events, Regency Health and Medicine
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In 1817, the first cholera pandemic broke out Kolkata (also known as Calcutta).  Between 1817 and 1824, it spread through Southeast Asisa to the Middle Continue →

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Regency Household: Design for a Farmhouse

By Anne | March 4, 2025 - 7:45 am |February 14, 2025 Regency Household
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This design appeared in Rural Architecture Or Designs, from the Simple Cottage to the Decorated Villa; Including Some which Have Been Executed. By John Plaw, Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, architecture, country hous, country house, designs, farm house, household, regency, Regency England
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    A duel, a deal, and a narrow escape from death

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