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Past Times and Pubs with Fanciful Names
One of my joys with research is Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, of which I have two copies. One is pretty old, though not a...
You can’t go there or do that if you’re a lady
Contrary to our ideas of what is acceptable, restrictions on Regency ladies were, on the whole, for their protection. We consider crowds...
Who is going to empty the chamber pot?
Life below stairs was no picnic in the Georgian and Regency era. Up with the lark, your average servant toiled throughout the day with...
Bow Street and the Long Arm of the Regency Law
The novelist Henry Fielding was also a magistrate. He worked out of a house in Bow Street in the 1750s, and began the force of...
Pipes, snuff and poison
Looking at images of Georgian life, one gets the impression that the use of tobacco was neither general nor widespread. Caricatures tend...
Life downstairs for the village maid-of-all-work
Maids of all kinds abounded in the Georgian era, and several feature in The Deathly Portent as this was the chief source of occupation...
How does the female detective cope in the Georgian and Regency world?
The short answer is, she can’t, not on her own. Ottilia’s status as a lady of the genteel classes precludes her presence in a great many...
