Regency Women of Character – Page 3

Regency Advertisements: Dialogues on Botany

By Anne | April 26, 2021 - 8:01 am |May 3, 2021 Regency Advertisements, Regency Literature, Regency Women of Character

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Appeared in the July 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee. Dialogues on Botany for the Use of Young Persons was published in 1819 and 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 Culture and Society: A Ladies Challenge

By Anne | February 26, 2020 - 11:39 am |March 24, 2020 Regency Advertisements, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Women of Character

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This anecdote appeared in the 1823 The Percy Anecdotes. What an absolute treasure this lady was. Although her advertisement appeared in the papers purportedly in Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Sarah Guppy

By Anne | January 16, 2020 - 6:50 am |February 11, 2020 Regency Science and Invention, Regency Women of Character

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Author, engineer, inventor, and all around bad a&* woman, Sarah Guppy nee Beach seemed to have a fevered imagination for solving a menagerie of problems. Continue →