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Regency Advertisements: Penetrating Hair Brushes

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This ad appeared in the October 1817 issue of La Belle Assemblee. I wasn’t able to find much more about P. Burgess and his penetrating Continue →

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

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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 →