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Regency Household: Making and Using Starch

By Anne | March 24, 2024 - 7:32 am |April 15, 2024 Regency Household

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Recipe and tips for starch appeared The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

Regency Fashion: The Cumberland

By Anne | March 22, 2024 - 8:03 am |April 8, 2024 Regency Fashion, Regency Men

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Lloyd’s Treatise on hats (1819) This is part of a series on Gentleman’s Hats: Regency Fashion: Gentlemen’s Hats Regency Fashion: The John Bull Top Hat Regency Continue →

Grace Callaway: Regarding the Duke

By Anne | March 20, 2024 - 8:33 am |April 8, 2024 2-3 Flames, Book Review, Grace Callaway

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CW: Parental death, parental abandonment, parental abuse, child abuse, fatphobia, amnesia, some violence, sub/dom themes A reader recommended I check out Grace Callaway, and I Continue →

Regency Men: Frederick ‘Poodle’ Byng

By Anne | March 18, 2024 - 7:37 am |April 4, 2024 Regency Men

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The Honorable Frederick Gerald “Poodle” Byng (1784-1871) was the fifth son of Viscount and Viscountess Torrington. At one time an ensign in the Army, then Continue →