Regency Women of Character – Page 3

Regency Women of Character: Henrietta Caroline Bentley

By Anne | March 14, 2025 - 6:38 am |April 5, 2025 Regency Science and Invention, Regency Women of Character

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Henrietta Caroline Bentley received a patent for a “bed for invalids, which may be made and the linen changed without inconveniencing the patient” (Stanley, 1995). Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Coade’s and Sealy’s Gallery of Sculpture of Artificial Stone

By Anne | July 22, 2024 - 7:51 am |August 12, 2024 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Women of Character

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Feltham, J., Phillips, R. (1807). The Picture of London, for 1807: Being a Correct Guide to All the Curiosities, Amusements, Exhibitions, Public Establishments, and Remarkable Objects, in and Near London: Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Ladies in Masquerade

By Anne | May 2, 2023 - 7:42 am |May 16, 2023 Regency Women of Character

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From the April 1802 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum, comes a story of two young women who determine, for survival, the need to masquerade Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Ann Alexander

By Anne | April 18, 2023 - 7:45 am |May 1, 2023 Regency Women of Character

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The Journal of the Friends’ Historical Society (1927) In 1801, Ann Barber of Eckington married William Alexander, and they began their life in London. Ann Continue →