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Regency Reader Questions: Unmarried and Orphaned

By Anne | October 22, 2021 - 7:53 am |October 29, 2021 Regency Reader Questions

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Regency Reader Question What would happen to a young unmarried women who was left without a living relative? Would it be possible for a family Continue →

Regency Estates: Kedleston Hall

By Anne | September 10, 2021 - 6:24 am |October 10, 2021 Regency Destinations, Regency Estates, Regency Household

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Magna Britannia;: Derbyshire (1817) Northwest of Derby, Kedleston Hall sits in all its stately glory (Kedleston Hall | National Trust) But in the Regency era, Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Keys, Servants, and Late Nights

By Anne | July 14, 2021 - 7:44 am |August 4, 2021 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Household, Regency Reader Questions

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wanted and keeps the rooms in perfect order Previous to her mistress retiring for the night she will have looked out her nightclothes and aired them well and she will not only now but at all times when she goes to dress carry up hot water for washing & c and when she is gone to bed she will carefully examine all her clothes and do all that is necessary to be done to them before she folds them away If her lady be elderly infirm or unwell she will sometimes be required to bring her work and sit with her to administer her medicines and sometimes to read to her To qualify herself for this latter purpose and to acquit herself with propriety she will

Michelle Regency Reader Question Hello, If a woman has been out to a ball and comes in at night (in London), how does she get Continue →

Regency Household: A Sheraton Sideboard

By Anne | July 2, 2021 - 6:40 am |July 19, 2021 Regency Household

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This design for a sideboard appeared in Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book (1793). The explanation includes: “The sideboard has a brass rod to Continue →