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Regency Culture and Society: All Hallow’s Eve Part One

By Anne | October 8, 2012 - 11:31 pm |July 18, 2013 Musings, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Folklore, Regency Literature

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In the first part of my Halloween in the Regency series, I present a poem written in 1785 that provides a little perspective on the Continue →

Regency Crime and Punishment: The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets

By Anne | October 1, 2012 - 8:26 pm |April 11, 2014 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Literature, Regency Villains

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“When a stranger first arrives in this overgrown city and finds upon alighting at the inn that he has still some miles perhaps to go Continue →

Regency Literature: The Novel

By Anne | May 15, 2012 - 11:34 pm |May 15, 2012 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Literature, Regency Words

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Oh the novel. We might guess at its pulp status from the very lips of Jane, herself, speaking about her heroine in Northanger Abbey: “Yes, Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Graffiti

By anneglover | May 3, 2012 - 1:12 pm |April 11, 2014 Musings, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Literature, Regency Words

Don’t you hate it when media gives the modern age credit for all the black eyes on humanity?! As if violence, crime, and other social Continue →

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