Saturday, April 20, 2013

"The Feelings Immediately Consequent Upon Stating the Case": Conduct in the Regency Applied to All

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This portrait by G. M. Woodward ( Curtesy 1797 ) is actually two images on a single plate, satirizing with some remarkable detail the extent...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

"A Base and Pernicious Vice": Gambling in the Regency Era

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During the Regency period in England, gambling was a very popular pastime, one that both the rich and the poor could enjoy. While providing ...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Ladies—manly airs assuming!

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Mary Robinson’s “ Winkfield Plain; Or a Description of a Camp in the Year 1800 ” (1804) elucidates and confirms the debauchery, profligacy, ...
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"An Impertinent Freedom"

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The anonymously penned pamphlet " An Address to the Deists. In Which are Prefixed, Remarks on the Conduct of Our Modern Clergy " l...
Monday, April 8, 2013

"He Ought not to be Charged for either of these Servants": Servants Constructed as Property

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Servants during the Regency period were identified as seen but not heard. During the Regency period servants were either inferior or superio...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

The More Extravagant a Master or Mistress is, the Better They Live

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John Trusler's section on servants , in his books " The London Adviser and Guide " (1790) helps explain to readers the underly...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Inactivity of the Inhabitants of Hertfordshire

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A freeholder of Hertfordshire’s “ The Necessity of Associating for the Purpose of Obtaining a Parliamentary Reform, Enforced ” (1792) helps ...
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