Regency Reader Questions: Eel-Backed
Just re-read Heyer’s _Cotillion_ and twice it uses the idiom “eel-backed”–can’t find that anywhere, does anyone have a notion what is meant? Thanks for the Continue
Just re-read Heyer’s _Cotillion_ and twice it uses the idiom “eel-backed”–can’t find that anywhere, does anyone have a notion what is meant? Thanks for the Continue
Of mythical origins, even soon after his death, Edward Hughes Ball was said to have inherited an enormous fortune of forty thousand pounds per annum Continue
This is the sixth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Continue
This ad is from La Belle Assemblée November 1817.