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Regency Folklore: The Wild Child

By Anne | September 5, 2011 - 12:06 pm |September 5, 2011 Regency Folklore

L’Enfant sauvage emerged from the French woods in 1797. Victor Aveyron was displayed for sometime in the village of Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance, France before running away. He Continue →

Regency Men: Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

By Anne | August 11, 2011 - 9:00 pm |November 11, 2021 Regency Men

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Member of Parliament, military man, and diplomat Lord Anglesey was scandalous enough to get a divorce and hearty enough to survive the amputation of his Continue →

Jane Austen’s Contemporaries

By Anne | July 11, 2011 - 10:30 pm |July 11, 2011 Regency Literature

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Janeites and hist-ro fans undoubtedly have wished at least once (if not many, many times) that there were more Austens to read and absorb, to Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Mary Linwood

By anneglover | June 30, 2011 - 9:15 pm |September 16, 2016 Regency Women of Character

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Mary Linwood was born in Birmingham in 1756 and at the age of nine moved with her family to Leicester after her winemaker father went bankrupt. Continue →