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Regency Reader Questions: Herbs and Broken Bones

By Anne | February 10, 2013 - 8:33 pm |August 14, 2015 Musings, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Dish, Regency Health and Medicine, Regency Science and Invention

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Moniker/Name: Brenda Your Question: What medicines, herbal or otherwise, were used primarily in the regency era? For instance, was there a ‘go to’ solution for Continue →

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 →