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Regency Women of Character: Mary Somerville

By Anne | October 29, 2012 - 8:26 pm |April 11, 2014 Musings, Regency Science and Invention, Regency Women of Character

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Mary Fairfax Somerville (26 December 1780 – 28 November 1872) was the daughter of British Vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, (from the distinguished family of Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Women at Waterloo

By Anne | January 19, 2012 - 3:23 pm |August 12, 2015 Regency Women of Character

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During a lull in fighting at Waterloo in 1815, British solidiers found the bodies of two women. “I saw one of them,” wrote Captain Henry Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Sarah Trimmer

By Anne | September 30, 2011 - 2:40 pm |September 30, 2011 Regency Women of Character

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Born in 1741, Sarah Trimmer nee Kirby was a writer, philanthropist and reformer whose focus on education and children’s literature helped influence a movement towards Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Mary Linwood

By anneglover | June 30, 2011 - 9:15 pm |September 16, 2016 Regency Women of Character

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Mary Linwood was born in Birmingham in 1756 and at the age of nine moved with her family to Leicester after her winemaker father went bankrupt. Continue →