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Regency Hot Spots: Kelsey’s

By Anne | August 12, 2026 - 7:42 am |August 22, 2026 Regency Hot Spots
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This famous fruit shop and confectionery at No. 7 St James Street (British Museum) Sadly, there is not a lot of information about Kelsey’s broadly Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, London, regency, Regency England, Regency Hot Spots

Regency Advertisements: A Phaeton

By Anne | August 10, 2026 - 7:06 am |August 16, 2026 Regency Advertisements, Regency Travel
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Saunders’s News-Letter, Monday, 9 August 1813. In my recent post on the Barouche Landau, I contemplated hybrid carriages and I think that has made me Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, London, regency, regency advertisements, regency adverts, Regency England

Regency Pastimes: Boxing the Watch

By Anne | July 6, 2026 - 8:48 am |July 28, 2026 Regency Pastimes
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This footnote appears in reference to this lecture: Which appears in: Thackeray, W. M. (1913). The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press. In Continue →

Tagged 1800s, 19th century, boxing the watch, London, mohawk, regency, Regency England, riotous bucks, roysterer, scowerer

Regency Travel: Carriage Omnibus

By Anne | June 12, 2026 - 7:34 am |July 3, 2026 Regency Science and Invention, Regency Travel
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George Cruikshank sketch of omnibus c. 1830. The first British bus line was created in 1824 by John Greenwood in Manchester.  He purchased a horse Continue →

Tagged 1800s, buses, London, omnibus, regency, regency men, shillibeer
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  • Her dowry changed her prospects, but only heartbreak could teach her the difference between fortune hunters and true love.

    Her dowry changed her prospects, but only heartbreak could teach her the difference between fortune hunters and true love.

    Charlotte Kendall doesn't think she has a romantic bone in her body, but she agrees to let her sister help her find a match. What she doesn't know is, Dorothea's wealthy husband has boosted Charlotte's modest dowry by six-fold. Robert Morton, a neighbor who is desperate to keep his debts a secret, learns of the large dowry and begins to court Charlotte. His younger brother, Frederick, loves Charotte for herself, not her dowry. Will Charlotte make the right choice with her heart before it is too late?

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    THREE BAGS FULL

    Hope is only a thought away.

    Jessica Tibbs is a woman of action and capable of shooting the highwayman trying to steal an old lady's jewels. But the thief turns out to be the brother of the man she falls in love with. Harrison Weston is entranced by a penniless girl who is not hopeless, but spirited enough to find solutions to all the problems plaguing him and his estate.

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    Newspapers hint at scandal. Her father calls it her final season. Grace calls it a beginning.

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