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Regency Reader Questions: Glove Etiquette Part Three

By Anne | May 16, 2017 - 9:05 am |June 23, 2017 Regency Fashion, Regency Reader Questions

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“…If for some reason a woman was ungloved, proper etiquette called for the gentleman to remove his gloves before taking her hand, as it was Continue →

Regency Household: A Hunting Lodge

By Anne | May 12, 2017 - 8:03 am |June 6, 2017 Regency Household

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This beautiful hunting lodge plate and description appeared in the May 1816 edition of Ackermann’s Repository. The large windows are meant to pull nature into Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: A Letter from a Young Gentleman to His Sister

By Anne | May 10, 2017 - 8:43 am |May 19, 2017 Regency Culture and Society

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Appearing in the Lady’s Monthly Museum (1803, Volume 11), this letter from a young gentleman to his sister is everything a letter from a big Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Worm Lozenges

By Anne | May 6, 2017 - 8:33 am |May 26, 2017 Regency Advertisements, Regency Health and Medicine

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La Belle Assemblee, December 1817 John Ching patented a medicine for “destroying worms” on July 11, 1796. The two types of lozenges, brown and yellow, were Continue →