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Regency Reader Questions: Hyde Park and Driving in the Dark

By Anne | February 10, 2017 - 8:19 am |March 6, 2017 Regency Pastimes, Regency Reader Questions

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Question: All the schedules I can find indicate that one called on acquaintances at 5 pm or later. And that the “fashionable hour” was from Continue →

Regency Women of Character: “Unbecoming” Lady Drivers

By Anne | February 8, 2017 - 8:55 am |February 21, 2017 Regency Travel, Regency Women of Character

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I was doing some research and ran across this account of women drivers in Hyde Park from a very starched up sexist American, and thought Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Nevermind the Bungling Imitations

By Anne | February 4, 2017 - 7:33 pm |February 17, 2017 Regency Advertisements, Regency Fashion

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From the 1818 Ackermann’s Repository…patented self-adjusting trusses. Don’t be fooled by the bungling imitators 🙂

Regency Culture and Society: Where is a good husband to be found?

By Anne | January 28, 2017 - 7:16 am |February 17, 2017 Regency Culture and Society

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Published in a column called “The Listener” in the January 1816 edition of La Belle Assemblee, writer Georgiana begs the question “Where is a good Continue →