Regency Pastimes – Page 8

Regency Reader Questions: Rubber and Emma

By Anne | May 8, 2021 - 8:22 am |July 30, 2021 Regency Pastimes, Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Regency Reader Question I was reading Emma (Jane Austen), and I stumbled upon the word rubber… but it doesn’t seem to mean the material rubber Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Miss Sarah Booth

By Anne | April 14, 2021 - 8:28 am |May 20, 2021 Regency Pastimes, Regency Women of Character

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This feature on Sarah Booth appeared in the April 1812 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum. Born in 1793 in Birmingham, she was discovered in Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Taw

By Anne | March 14, 2021 - 7:47 am |March 18, 2021 Regency Pastimes

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Defined in Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as “a schoolboy’s game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, called marbles”, Continue →