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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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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.
