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Regency Women of Character: Madame Saqui

By Anne | January 4, 2017 - 8:39 am |January 23, 2017 Regency Women of Character

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Appearing in the January 1820 edition of La Belle Assemblee, this brief biographical sketch of tight rope walker Madame Saqui highlights her active acrobatics. Beyond Continue →

Emily Hendrickson: Miss Cheney’s Charade

By Anne | December 28, 2016 - 8:40 am |January 11, 2017 0-1 Flames, Emily Hendrickson

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Proper Emma Cheney finds an invitation sent to her brother too fascinating to resist—a chance to see a mummy from exotic Egypt unwrapped. It is Continue →

Regency Villains: Napoleon’s Temper

By Anne | December 26, 2016 - 8:01 am |January 11, 2017 Regency Villains

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Napoleon’s temper was “sudden, fierce, and boisterous” (The Life of Emperor Napoleon, 1834 by Henry Lee). (“1812” Napoleon I in Russia: With an Introduction by Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Hannah More

By Anne | December 24, 2016 - 8:26 am |January 11, 2017 Regency Women of Character

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Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies (1810) Hannah More Hannah More (1745-1833) would eventually be known as a thought leader of evangelical, Continue →