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

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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 →

Regency Hot Spots: Harrison’s and Bartleman’s Vocal Concerts

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Hanover Square Rooms in 1843 The picture of London, for 1802 These concerts were initiated in 1792 in the Willis’s Rooms by Harrison and Knyvett Continue →

Regency Household: Furniture

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I have furniture on the brain.  DH and I are redeco-ing our living room after a kitchen remodel, and I have been scouring craigslist and Continue →