Regency Pastimes: Mr. Kirkby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum

Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. (1820) Mademoiselle Lefort, intersexed, was part of Mr. Kirby’s exhibition of extraordinary people.  Lefort was Continue

Diana Quincy: The Viscount Made Me Do It

CW: death/murder Second in a series that worked great as a standalone, The Viscount Made Me Do It features a wounded soldier carrying grief from the Continue

Regency Advertisements: James Atkinson, Perfumer and Avenger

I love this bizarre ad so much (La Belle Assemblee, July 1819), as perfumer James Atkinson (est. 1799) offers a reward for turning in counterfeit Continue