Tag Archives: 19th century

Regency Reader Questions: It’s Potty Time

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bordaloue for ladies

Tara K, who has sent me a raft of interesting questions including glove etiquette, whether ladies could say “cheese”, and why certain conveyances were painted Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Debates for the Ladies

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Appearing in the January 1807 Lady’s Monthly Museum, a debate about whether courtships are likely to produce happy marriages is presented.  I remember hearing this Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit.  These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue →