Regency Reader

Regency Health and Medicine: A Recipe for Bruises

By Anne | August 30, 2022 - 7:23 am |September 16, 2022 Regency Health and Medicine

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This recipe appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

Regency Reader Questions: Cod of Blunt

By Anne | August 28, 2022 - 7:55 am |September 17, 2022 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Words

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Regency Reader Question What is a “cod of blunt”? Source of Question Reg Rom Book Additional comments Thanks for the question, Kate, and for being Continue →

Joan Smith: Strange Capers

By Anne | August 26, 2022 - 7:06 am |September 7, 2022 0-1 Flames, Book Review, Joan Smith

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I have read a lot of Joan Smith, mostly because they are on the shorter side so I can breeze through them in a few Continue →

Regency Events: The Imprisonment of Toussaint Louverture

By Anne | August 24, 2022 - 7:25 am |September 5, 2022 Regency Events

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On August 25, 1803, Toussaint Louverture was imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France. Toussaint Louverture was leader of the Haitian independence movement. Born a Continue →