Regency Pastimes: Mr. Kirkby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum

Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. (1820) Mademoiselle Lefort, intersexed, was part of Mr. Kirby’s exhibition of extraordinary people.  Lefort was Continue

Regency Pastimes: Water Colour Exhibitions of 1812

These accounts appeared in the June 1812 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum.  I had difficulty tracking down shareable images of any of the paintings Continue

Regency Advertisements: To the Ladies

This ad appeared in the July 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee.  This is a by a woman for women kind of ad. I have Continue