Regency Culture and Society – Page 49

Regency Reader Questions: Funeral Rites

By Anne | February 6, 2013 - 10:02 am |April 11, 2014 Musings, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Reader Questions

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You clever readers, you always come up with the most interesting questions! Here is one from Lucina: Moniker/Name: Lucina Your Question: I’ve run across several Continue →

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

By Anne | January 22, 2013 - 6:08 pm |April 23, 2014 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Reader Questions

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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

By Anne | January 21, 2013 - 9:03 pm |October 20, 2021 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Reader Questions

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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 Culture and Society: Winter Merrymaking

By Anne | December 12, 2012 - 9:32 pm |July 18, 2013 Regency Culture and Society

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Rachel Revel (pen name) in 1826 published a delightful book detailing all the games one might play during Twelfth Night. With a plethora of passtimes Continue →