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Regency Reader Questions: Actors and Housing

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Moniker/Name: Alyson Pearce Source of Question: Research Your Question: Hello! I’m writing a different sort of Regency romance and I had a question regarding living Continue →

Regency Folklore: The Headless Man With A Blue Coat and Gilt Buttons

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A discovery concerning ghosts, with a rap at the ‘spirit-rappers’. (illustration by Cruikshank), 1863 I found a very interesting book somewhat after the Regency era, Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Exeter ‘Change

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  In the Strand the Exeter (Ex)Change was built around 1690 “as a sort of bazaar” which “(l)ike countless other imitations…proved a failure” (London society, Continue →