Regency Reader Questions: Smashing

Moniker/Name Valerie Source of Question Research Your Question If a Regency man (say, Charles Bingley) wanted to say something is smashing, terrific, etc., what would Continue
Moniker/Name Valerie Source of Question Research Your Question If a Regency man (say, Charles Bingley) wanted to say something is smashing, terrific, etc., what would Continue
Moniker/Name snuggles.schubert Source of Question Reg Rom Book Your Question What does “pitched a daisy cutter” mean? I believe it is a failure of some sort. Continue
Just re-read Heyer’s _Cotillion_ and twice it uses the idiom “eel-backed”–can’t find that anywhere, does anyone have a notion what is meant? Thanks for the Continue
When referring to the middle or merchant class, Regency romance novels will often use the term Cit or the phrase “smell of the shop”. In Continue