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Regency Reader Questions: Rubber and Emma

By Anne | May 8, 2021 - 8:22 am |July 30, 2021 Regency Pastimes, Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Regency Reader Question I was reading Emma (Jane Austen), and I stumbled upon the word rubber… but it doesn’t seem to mean the material rubber Continue →

Regency Words: Blows

By Anne | April 12, 2021 - 7:53 am |April 20, 2021 Regency Words

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Looking for just the right word to describe a punch, smack or hit that happened in the early 19th century? Here is a collection of Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Illegitimacy

By Anne | December 6, 2020 - 7:15 am |December 18, 2020 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Regency Reader Question Would a member of the Aristocracy refer to their own baseborn child as a bastard? Or is that too modern? Would they Continue →

Regency Reader Question: Turnip as an Insult

By Anne | October 4, 2020 - 7:04 am |October 25, 2022 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Regency Reader Question In Georgette Heyer’s novel, “The Grand Sophy”, the heroine goes to a backstreet, crooked moneylender, Goldhanger by name, and recovers Hubert’s pledge Continue →