Regency Reader Questions: Cloak Rooms, Retiring Rooms and the Necessary

Rolinda Sharpes, The Cloakroom (Clifton  Assembly Rooms), 1817 Sources used in the last post on Regency chaperones prompted another question about cloakrooms. Because my sources Continue

Regency Reader Questions: On Chaperones

Moniker/Name: Monica Your Question: I’ve been wondering about the need for young gentlewomen who lived with male relatives to have female companions once they’d outgrown Continue

Regency Women of Character: Lady Castlereagh

Amelia Anne Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (20 February 1772 – 12 February 1829) was born Amelia Hobart, daughter of the Earl of Buckinghamshire.  After her Continue

Regency Reader Questions: Regency Era Resources

As part of my blog, I developed a page where you can submit your Regency era questions.  Here is a brilliant one from Brooke: Moniker/Name: Continue