Regency Household: Laws Concerning Masters and Servants

The Cook’s Complete Guide on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance (1810) gives a brief overview of laws that impact the hiring, firing, punishment Continue
The Cook’s Complete Guide on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance (1810) gives a brief overview of laws that impact the hiring, firing, punishment Continue
This engraving and the description appeared in the 1823 book “Modern Furniture” by Augustus Pugin and J Stafford. Napolean’s Egyptian Campaign in the early 19 Continue
Appeared in the September 1820 issue of Ackermann’s Repository. It looks a bit like a mausoleum to me, but I have to confess that having Continue
In Friday’s Child, Hero is given by one of her husband’s friends an ormolu clock. I always had a specific picture in my brain of Continue