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Regency Villians: Lady Sutherland

By Anne | February 12, 2018 - 7:51 am |February 27, 2018 Regency Villains, Regency Women of Character

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Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (née Gordon, 24 May 1765 – 29 January 1839)was married to George Granville Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham who succeeded to his father’s Continue →

Regency Fashion: Evening Dresses

By Anne | February 2, 2018 - 6:45 am |February 8, 2018 Regency Fashion

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From February 1808 edition of The Lady’s Monthly Museum. The descriptions are brief for this collection of three gowns, but the accessories suggest an evening Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: The Withdrawing Rooms

By Anne | January 20, 2018 - 7:53 am |February 20, 2018 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Household, Regency Reader Questions

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Ground plans of two manor homes circa Regency

In a follow up from my post/questions about bathroom habits of Regency people, and expanding on an earlier post about cloak rooms and withdrawing Continue →

Regency Customs: A Receipt for Courtship

By Anne | January 18, 2018 - 8:15 am |January 30, 2018 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs

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This 1805 caricature of courtship gives a simple recipe for love and marriage (by Lurie & Whittle of Fleet Street): Two or three dears, and Continue →