Regency Reader Questions: Adoptions and Inheritance in the Regency

Regency Reader Question I apologize if you’ve addressed this before, but if a duke/duchess or anyone with a title and entailed estates could not have Continue

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