Regency Women of Character – Page 7

Regency Women of Character: Madame Saqui

By Anne | January 4, 2017 - 8:39 am |January 23, 2017 Regency Women of Character

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Appearing in the January 1820 edition of La Belle Assemblee, this brief biographical sketch of tight rope walker Madame Saqui highlights her active acrobatics. Beyond Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Hannah More

By Anne | December 24, 2016 - 8:26 am |January 11, 2017 Regency Women of Character

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Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies (1810) Hannah More Hannah More (1745-1833) would eventually be known as a thought leader of evangelical, Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Miss Nash

By Anne | October 22, 2016 - 9:23 am |November 25, 2016 Regency Women of Character

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Featured in the August 1816 La Belle Assemblee, Miss Nash was a notable actress and singer during the Regency era. Although I wasn’t able to Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: An Old Maid’s Fruitless Search After A Husband

By Anne | September 28, 2016 - 7:59 am |October 13, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Women of Character

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This scathing reply to a character sketch of an old maid published in the December 1821 of Ackermann’s Repository makes the argument that fortune, more oft Continue →