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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 →

Regency Women of Character: Amelia Noel

By Anne | September 22, 2016 - 11:16 am |October 13, 2016 Regency Women of Character

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Amelia Noel, born Minka Levy, was an artist who specialized in landscapes. Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Elizabeth Billington

By Anne | December 12, 2015 - 2:07 pm |January 20, 2016 Regency Women of Character

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Born in London in approximately 1768, Elizabeth Weichsel was the daughter of Carl Weichsel, German native and clarinet principal at the King’s Theatre. Her mother Continue →