Regency Culture and Society: Doctor Poetry Battle

A man holding a novel

Perhaps proving a universal truth that insults are best served in rhyming stanzas, this delightful bickering was published in The Spirit of English Wit; Or, Continue

Regency Reader Question: Turnip as an Insult

Regency Reader Question In Georgette Heyer’s novel, “The Grand Sophy”, the heroine goes to a backstreet, crooked moneylender, Goldhanger by name, and recovers Hubert’s pledge Continue