Regency Culture and Society: A Ladies Challenge

This anecdote appeared in the 1823 The Percy Anecdotes.  What an absolute treasure this lady was.  Although her advertisement appeared in the papers purportedly in Continue

Regency Advertisements: London Straw Hat Manufactory and White Whalebone Hats

These ads appeared in the May 1816 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.   Here is more about Charles Vyse, the hat manufacturer including some scandalous family Continue