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Regency Culture and Society: An Opinion of Snuff

By Anne | January 8, 2024 - 8:19 am |January 21, 2024 Regency Culture and Society
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Excerpt from Hints on Etiquette and the Usages of Society, with a glance at bad habits. (1836)

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, health, regency, Regency England, snuff, tobacco

Regency Advertisements: Governess Wanted

By Anne | January 6, 2024 - 7:46 am |January 15, 2024 Regency Advertisements
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This want ad appeared in Monmouthshire Merlin on Saturday 17, October 1829.

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, regency, regency ads, regency advertisements, regency adverts, Regency England

Regency Household: Curtains

By Anne | January 4, 2024 - 8:12 am |February 1, 2024 Regency Household
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This design for curtains appeared in the 1808 Ackermann’s The upholsterer’s and cabinetmakers Repository.

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, ackermann's repository, curtains, furniture, home decor, interior decor, interior design, Regency England, window dressing

Regency Fashions: Morning, Ball, Walking and Evening Dresses (1828)

By Anne | January 2, 2024 - 8:00 am |February 1, 2024 Regency Fashion
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Plates and descriptions of these gowns appeared in La Belle Assemblée’s January 1828 edition.

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, la belle assemblee, regency, Regency England, regency fashion, regency women, regency women's clothing, regency women's fashion, walking dress, women
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    Mystery, magnetism, and marzipan

    Scottish singer Emma Bryson travels to London determined to fulfill a deathbed promise to her mother to sing for the Queen. Her debut at a fashionable salon starts brilliantly but ends in disaster when the usually poised Emma tumbles backwards and lands on the champagne-buffed boots of Philip Henry Jamison, the earl of Blackbourne and London's most eligible bachelor.

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