Regency Hot Spots: Dutton’s Circulating Library

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La Belle Assemblee, 1807 On 45 Gracechurch Street in London, Dutton’s Universal Circulating Library and booksellers operated from 1799 until sometime in the late 1820s.  It was one Continue →

Regency Fashion: Walking, Opera, and Evening Dresses with Hats (1806)

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Plates of gowns and hats with descriptions appeared in La Belle Assemblee 1806. Note the turn of the phrase, “in vogue”.

Victoria Alexander: The Lady Travelers Guide to Happily Ever After

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For the past seven years, Viola Branham has enjoyed the luxury of traveling the world as an independent woman, and confining her awkward past to Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: All About the Dukes…No Barons

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Portrait of a brooding Duke of Wellington

Regency Reader Question I have always understood that dukes are very rare, and in the English peerage, most have a connection or actual blood relationship Continue →