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Finding Connections
I often feel like a great pretender as an American writing about the Regency, but my genealogist husband pointed out my own valid connection.
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Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary?
A surgeon in the Regency era was simply a self-taught or non-degree-holding medical man who knew enough to treat you when you were ill, and would also perform surgery if necessary.
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A Debate Over Debutantes
As a word geek, I do apologize for splitting hairs, but I really must take a stand: there were no debutantes in the Regency.
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Where Has All the Civility Gone?
I make sure to warmly thank anyone---male or female, adult or child---who opens a door for me, even if I was fully capable of doing it myself, because I choose to believe that they simply want to make my day a little smoother and a little brighter.
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The Essential Introduction
During the Regency, the right introductions were the key to success in society, and the wrong ones spelled certain doom.
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How Bazaar
It seems fair to assume that the Soho Bazaar was most likely the shopping place Georgette Heyer meant in her excellent novels, but who can blame her for getting confused? I certainly don't dare.
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A Fair Funambulist
One of the colorful personalities that is hardly mentioned in modern literature, but who undoubtedly was known by name to almost all the members of the Regency ton, was Madame Saqui, a tightrope walker and gymnast.
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Auld Lang Syne
Let's remember the times we were good, and the times that were good to us, and move forward for old times' sake.
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Macadamised is not nuts
In an earlier post, I rhapsodized about sidewalks, and now I'm going to do it again---but about roads.
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Not Your Average Occupations
"It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "that young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are... They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses."
