Regency Reader

Last year I compiled this master list of Halloween/Gothic/Autumnal Reads mostly focusing in the Regency or early Victorian era, and have a few to add!

As part of my Autumnal Read-a-thon I decided it had been an age since I had an adventure with Cathy Morland, and so opened up Continue →

Sports of Childhood. (1834).

The Honorable William Wellesley Pole (1788-1857) was born into a famous family, and the only son of the Lord Maryborough.

Walford, E. (1883).

While the HMS Pandora, which sank in 1791, had an early version of a mechanical pencil, the first patent for a refillable pencil was issued Continue →

Copley, E. (1810).

This is the forty-fifth post in our Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed.

This ad appeared in the Stamford Mercury on June 4, 1790.

Every Autumn I am on a quest to sink into the delights of my favorite season with a good book full of mood.

I have completed my wild adventure with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (review to post next) as part of my annual mission for Autumnal Continue →

Maria Garcia, styled as La Belle Espagnole, was a popular pantomime and tightrope performer in London, mostly at Sadler’s Wells, between 1785 and 1796.

The design and description appeared in Domestic Architecture: Being a Series of Designs for Mansions, Villas, Rectory Houses, Parsonage Houses, Bailiffs’ Lodge, Gardener’s Lodge, Game-keeper’s Lodge, Continue →