Category Archives: Regency Customs

Regency Reader Questions: Funeral Rites

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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

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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

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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 →