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Regency Advertisements: Travel Linen for Going Abroad

By Anne | November 4, 2016 - 8:31 am |November 14, 2021 Regency Advertisements, Regency Fashion

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Appearing in the 1816 Ackermann’s Repository.

Regency Hot Spots: Chief Seats of Particular Trades

By Anne | October 30, 2016 - 9:38 am |November 11, 2016 Regency Economy, Regency Hot Spots

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I ran across this list in A Description of London; containing a sketch of its history and present (1824) and found it interesting and useful, Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Vegetable Toothpowder and Silver Wired Toothbrushes

By Anne | October 12, 2016 - 4:53 pm |October 18, 2016 Regency Advertisements

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Appearing in the 1816 Ackermann’s Repository, this ad for toothpowder stresses the importance of dental health:

Regency Culture and Society: An Old Maid’s Fruitless Search After A Husband

By Anne | September 28, 2016 - 7:59 am |October 13, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Women of Character

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This scathing reply to a character sketch of an old maid published in the December 1821 of Ackermann’s Repository makes the argument that fortune, more oft Continue →