Social Customs During The Regency Era

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Please note: The long lists of links are arranged by topic in alphabetical order. To learn about Regency customs and life from the people who actually lived in the era, please visit the Original Sources page on top of this blog. You will find many of the resources you are seeking there.

These links lead to sites and resources about british customs during the 18th and 19th centuries, including daily life, love, courtship, and inheritance. The list is constantly updated. (Also visit “British Links” in my sidebar.)

1. British Culture

• A Guide to English Culture: 1660-1830
• English Culture: British Express
• Georgian England, Edward Albert Richardson, partial Google book
• Georgian England and the Regency
• Life in the 18th Century
• Old Times, a Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century, Old Times, 2009, partial Google Book
• Regency England (Also see Daily Life below)
• Regency Era Life
• Regency Information: This London Life
• Regency Resources
• Regency Research: A Megasite of information
• Social Classes in England, 1814: A Chart
• Social Classes, Money and Servants in Austen’s Society
• Social England Under the Regency, John Ashton
• Social Season During the Edwardian Era
• The Jane Austen Regency Glossary
• The London Life: Great links
• The Regency Library
• The Regency Townhouse

2. Documents:

• 18th Century and Regency Documents
• Image Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery: Selected Archived Documents: Regency Portraits

3. Peerage/Precedence

• “Addressing the Duke and Inheriting His Loot”, PDF doc
• Correct Forms of Address
• Common Regency Errors
• Map of English Society and Precedence
• Order of Precedence in England and Wales
• Precedence: Peerage
• Precedence: Encyclopedia Britannica
• Social Classes in England, 1814 (Post on this blog)

4. The Regency Era in General:

• Annie Grace Regency Links
• Candice Hern’s Regency Era
• Factoids: Joanna Waugh
• Firthness.com: Find a variety links on social customs
• Georgian Marriages
• Historical Places and Faces, a glossary
• Life in Georgian England by EN Williams, 1962, Full book, Internet Archive
• Inside Out: Pride and Prejudice (PDF Doc)
• Regency Hero, 6 page PDF Doc
• Regency Images
• Regency Lexicon
• Regency Links: Anne Gracie
• Resources for Readers and Writers of the Regency Era
• Scenes of Life (in the French Regency)
• The Historical and Extended Regency Period
• The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space, and Architecture in Regency London, Jane Rendell, partial book available
• The Regency Reference Book
• The Regency World
• The Georgian Index: Includes extensive descriptions of the Regency world
• Town Bronze: From A Regency Repository
• Understanding the Society in Which Jane Austen Sets Pride and Prejudice, Pamela Whalan, JASA

Agriculture

• Agrarian Revolution
• Early Modern Agriculture: PDF doc
• Enclosure
• History of British Villages
• Jane Austen and the enclosure movement: the sense and sensibility of reform
• The Museum of English Rural Life, included here is the link to the collections

Animals, See Pets, Animals, and Husbandry

Art, Architecture, and Culture (See also Country Houses and Furnishings)

• Architectural Styles in Jane Austen’s Life
• Arts: A Regency Repository
• Arts and Entertainments
• Art Encyclopedia
• British Architecture and Interior Decoration: Links
• Caricature History of the Georges, or Annals of the House of Hanover, Thomas Wright, 1876, partial Google book
• Cox, David: Views of Bath, Bath Library
• Cruikshank, Robert: Devastated Dandies
• English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century, Graham Everitt, illustrated Project Gutenberg eBook
• Gillray Caricatures
• Henry Robert Morland, Paintings
• History of Silhouettes
• Interior Design in England: 1600-1800
• James Gillray: A large selection of prints with explanations at the New York Public Library
• John Leech, Sketch Archive from Punch
• Lane, Theodore: Genre, cartoons
• Louis Leopold Boilly
• Life in a Country House
• Luke Clennell, 3 Paintings
• Malton, Thomas Jnr: Architectural painting/prints
• Mathematical tiles
• Neoclassicism: The Sister Arts
• Orientalism, Persuasions Online
• Paint: Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian Houses
• Painting Likenesses in the early 19th Century
• Period House Style: Georgian and Regency Era
• Phillips, Thomas: Portraits
• Probert: Encyclopedia about architecture
• Regency Portraits
• Regency Townhouse Basics, Gaelen Foley
• Social Classes in England, 1814: A Chart
• The Cartoons of James Gillray
• The Layout of Harewood House: A Country House
• The London Life: Helpful Links
• The Shows of London, Richard D. Altick, 1978
• Thompson, Hugh. Biography of Jane Austen illustrator
• Timeline of Art History
• Wiki Gallery

Cant and Slang: See Vocabulary

Children

• Every Boy’s Book: a complete encyclopædia of sports and amusements : intended to afford recreation and instruction to boys in their leisure hours, John George Wood, William Harvey, Harrison Weir, Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, 1855, Routledge, London

Coins (Also see Economics)

• British Coins Before the Florin
• British Farthing
• Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living: Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Historic British Coinage: Descriptions
• Money: Word Wenches

Cookery (Also see Dining)

• Mechanical Roasting on the Hearth
• All Manner of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France From the Middle Ages to the Present, Stephen Mennell, 1995
• Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain, John Burnett, 1999 (From the 17th century to the present.)
• Cookery links on this blog: please click on home, and look on the side bar for a list of links. Original cookery books are listed under Original Sources.

Country Houses (See also Architecture and Furnishings, and Houses)

• A Companion to 18th Century Britain: Country Houses, chapter of a partial Google book
• A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses
• Country Houses, Ackermann’s Repository
• From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: The English Country House from Austen to Altman
• Inside an English Country House
• Life in the English Country House, Mark Girouard, partial Google book
• Paint Colors from the Past
• Period House Style: Georgian and Regency Era
• Researching the History of Country Houses, database
• Suburban and Country Houses: Selection Guide, Domestic Buildings, PDF Doc, English Heritage
• The 19th Century Country House, bibliography
• The Country House, JASA
• The Heritage Trail: British stately homes and buildings search site
• The History of British Villages
• What Goes Around: The Use of Rotunda in UK Country Houses

Courtship (See Marriage/Marriage Mart)

Crime (Also see Law)

• 1800′s Rough Justice for Petty Criminals
• Bow Street Runners and the Marine Police
• Children, Poverty and Crime in Regency England: Post on this blog
• Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Vol 2, 1888, Google book
• Conditions in Prisons and Types of Punishment During the 19th Century
• Crime and Punishment: Homosexuality in Georgian Times
• Bow Street Horse Patrol: Fighting Crime During the Regency Era
• History of British Judicial Hanging 1735-1964
• History of the Metropolitan Police: 1829-1849
• Jack Sheppard
• Making Sense of British Law Enforcement in the 18th Century
• The Dangerous World of Regency London
• The Georgian Underworld
• The Gin Craze: Drink, Crime & Women in 18th Century London
• The Newgate Calendar
• Capital Punishment in the 18th & 19th Century
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• History of Policing: The Bow Street Runners, 1748-1829
• King’s Cutters and Smugglers, 1700-1855, Project Gutenberg Book
• Marshalsea Prison, Ask Jeeves
• Policing in London, The Old Bailey Online
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Shipwrecks and smuggling
• Smuggler’s Britain
• The Georgian Underworld by Rictor Norton
• The Underworld and the Underclass
• The Dangerous World of Regency England: Scroll down the page to find the article

Daily Life

• A Day in the Life of a Regency Lady: The Regency Townhouse
• A History of Private Life, Interview with Amanda Vickery, BBC Radio4
• Advertising and Satiric Culture in the Romantic Period, John Strachan, 2007, partial Google Book
• Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex
• Common Regency Errors: Regency Life Explained
• Cost of Living in Regency England
• Daily Life in the Regency Era: Eras of Elegance
• Daily Life: The Regency Townhouse
• (The) English Housewife in the 17th & 18th Century, Internet archive
• Family Library, Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine
• Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1913, Kertzer & Barbagli, partial Google book
• History of Taking Tea
• Jane Austen Lived Before the Invention of Afternoon Tea, Tea Party Girl
• Life in Regency England, R.J. White, book
• Life in the Regency Era: Summer Resorts
• Life in the Regency and Early Victorian Times, Beresford Chancellor, 2007
• Mealtimes of the Regency Day
• Regency Daily Life
• Regency Reference Pages
• The Fashionable Hour in Hyde Park
• The London Season
• The London Season and Leisure Pursuits of the Ton
• The Regency Collection
• Regency Society: Pride and Prejudice
• Mourning
• Regency Mourning Customs
• The Art of Mourning
• The Cost of Living in Jane Austen’s England
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Poole, partial Google book

Dancing (See also Music & Songs)

• 18th Century Movement
• A Tour of the Ballroom - (Unsourced and unclear about dates, but a good overview)
• Capering and Kickery- A blog about dance by a dance historian
• Dances from Pride and Prejudice
• Dance Card Days
• Dance Card Gallery (American)
• Dance History
• Dance Instruction Manuals
• Dance, physicality, and social mobility in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
• Early 19th Century Dance
• English Country Dancing Before, During, and After Jane Austen
• English Country Dancing, Wilson, 1815, PDF document (takes a long time to download)
• Felicities in Rapid Motion: Jane Austen in the Ballroom
• Formal Balls in Jane Austen’s and Regency England
• How to Dance a Country Dance
• Late Eighteenth Century Social Dance
• Formal Balls in Jane Austen Novels and Regency England, Sandra Causey
• From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth Century Dance, Elizabeth Aldrich, 1991
• Real Regency Dancers Don’t Turn Single
• Regency Dances
• Social Dances of the 19th Century
• The Fiddler’s Companion
• The Regency Ballroom - Listen to Samples of English Country Dance
• The Shocking Waltz, Mass Historia
• The Waltz in Jane Austen’s Time
• Thos. Wilson’s Description of Regency Waltzing, 1816

Dictionaries and Regency Cant (See Vocabulary)

Dining (Also visit “Food and Cookery” in my sidebar and look under “Original Sources”)

• All About Coffee, (history) 1922, William H. Ukers, Project Gutenberg, with illustrations
• All About Coffee (Google eBook), William Harrison Ukers, Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1922 – 796 pages
• A New System of Domestic Cookery:Maria Eliza Rundell, 1807 (American Cookbook based on British recipes.)
• A Taste of History: Georgian Food
• A Dish of Mutton: Jane Austen Centre
• At Table: High Style in the 18th Century, Carnegie Museum of Art
• Books for Cooks: British Library
• Breakfast in the 18th Century: The unexamined meal
• Cordial Waters
• Cultural Rules of Dining
• Destination: 18th Century Food
• Dining in the Great House: Food and Drink in the Time of Jane Austen, Eileen Sutherland
• Dinner is served, Jefferson, Monticello
• Early British Table Silver: A Short History
• Food for Thought: Researching the History of Nutrition, Bibliography
• Food in Jane Austen Novels
• Georgian/Regency Picture Gallery of Food
• Jane Austen Lived Before the Inventor of the Tea Party
• London Coffee House: A Social Institution
• London Cafes: the surprising history of London’s lost coffee houses
• Merry Gourmet Miniatures: Georgian Kitchen Food
• Probert: Encyclopedia about Food
• Regency Dinner Party Etiquette
• Regency Drink: Click here for my posts on the topic
• Regency Eating: Old Foodie
• Regency Food: Click here for my posts on the topic
• Regency Recipes, Customs and Manners: Jane Austen Centre
• Social History of the Pineapple
• Storage, preservation, and ice houses
• Soup: Julienne Soup
• The Tea Caddy, A History of
• The Torments of Rice Pudding and Apple Dumplings: Jane Austen and Food, PDF Doc
• Traditional English Food

Economics/Money (Also see Coins)

• Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex
• Cost of Living in Regency England
• Economics: British History Online
• How Rich is Fitzwilliam Darcy? Podcast: Brad De Long’s Morning Coffee
• How Wealthy is Mr. Darcy – Really? Pounds and Dollars in the World of Pride and Prejudice, James Heldman
• Money: Word Wenches
• Money is Nothing, Cheryl Craig
• Regency money
• Value of British Money Prior to Decimalisation

Education (Books, Literature, Schools and Libraries)

• 18th Century Reading and Writing: How to read 18th century British and American Handwriting
• The 18th Century: Religion and Education, British History Online
• Andrew Bell, History of Education
• The Cambridge Bibliography of Literature 1800-1900, Google book preview
• Education, A Regency Repository
• The Family Library, Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine
• Joseph Lancaster, History of Education
• Mary Edwards: Computing for a Living in 18th Century Britain, PDF doc
• Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, Google book preview
• Women and Schooling, History of Education

Etiquette (See Manners and Customs, and Letters)

Fashion (Also visit “Fashion” in my sidebar)

• 1790′s Fashion, Part I: Zip Zip Vintage Sewing
• 1790′s Fashion, Part II: Zip Zip Vintage Sewing
• 1795-1795 Robe and Petticoat, Part I
• Late 18th Century Women’s High Fashion
• 18th Century Fashion, A Brief History
• 18th century, late, women’s high fashion, Heather Carroll
• 18th Century Clothing, The Making of Cloth, PDF Document
• 18th Century Clothing, Maternity Wear
• 18th Century Plates by the decade: Dames a la Mode
• 1812 Fashion: Nineteen Teen
• 1813-1814, Walking Dresses: Candice Hern
• 19th Century fans
• In the 18th Century the wig made a man
• Accessories of Dress, By Katherine Morris Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, Helen Westermann, 2004, partial Google book
  
• Afternoon Dress, Cathy Decker
• A Regency Era Primer
• Assembling a Regency Gentleman’s Wardrobe
• Bonnets, PDF document
• Children’s Fashions
• Cloaks, Capes, Pelisses and Spencers: Outerwear for Regency Ladies, Kathy Hammel
• (Corsets) An Overview of Regency Stays
• Corsetry Links
• Corsets, History of
• Corsets, Male: Oh, Shock, Oh Horror, A Hero in Corsets!
• The Corset, Valerie Steele, Partial book available, Google Books
• The History of Corsets, Christina Wilson
• Costume Captures in Film
• Costumer’s Manifesto
• Costumes of Yorkshire, 1814, New York Library, Digital Collection
• Costuming the Emmas, Strangegirl Blog
• Court Dress, Ladies, Candice Hern
• Court Dress for Judges and the Judiciary
• Dandy, Les Invisibles
• Distinctions of Regency Dress: Undress, Half Dress, Full Dress, and Riding Habit
• Dressed in Fiction, partial Google Book
• Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XiV to Elizabeth II, Philip Mansel, 2005 partial Google book
• Dress in France in the 18th Century, Madeleine Delpierre, partial Google book
• Elizabeth Bennet’s Wardrobe: Undress, Half Dress, Full Dress, Headdress! Making Sense of it All, Linore Rose Burkhard
• Embroiderer’s Guild of America, a Comprehensive Glossary. PDF file
• Emma Movie Gowns
• Empire 1790-1815
• Empire Style
• English Fashion During the French Revolution
• English Women’s Clothing in the 19th Century, Cecil Willett Cunnington, 1990, partial google book
• Equestrian Costume

• Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and Her World, Jeffrey Nigro
• Evils of Artifice: Cosmetic Use in Europe from the Baroque Age to the Victorian Age, Jolique, 1999
• Fans, Regency
• Fashion in Paris: (to the end of the 19th century) Octave Uzanne, 1901, Google eBook
• Fashion Museum: Evening Dress 1804
• Fashion posts on this site
• Female Fashion During the Regency Era of Jane Austen
• French Fashions in London
• French Lingerie & Making Lace
• French Night Shifts, 1794
• Garters: Kalen Hughes
• Garters: 1800-1830
• Georgian Era: Dress of Women – Hoops and Mantua Makers
• Gezler Mode Collection 1803-1841, Database
• Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology
• Hats: A History in Fashion in Head Wear, partial Google book
• Historical Fashion Reference Material, List on Facebook
• History of English Dress in the Late 17th and 18th Centuries
• History of Fashion
• History of Saville Row
• History of Underwear
• Hosiery Museum: 18th C. Stockings
• Hull Museum Collection: Regency Fashion
• Illustrated Glossary of Victorian Sartorial Terms
• Importance of Wearing White
• Introduction to 18th Century Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum
• It’s All in the Details: Making a Regency Ball Gown
• Jane Austen’s Pelisse Coat
• Jessamyn’s Regency Costume Companion
• Jewelry: Antique Jewelry Glossary
• Jewellery of the Georgian Era: J’antiques and Collectibles
• Jewelry of the Georgian and Victorian Periods: Morning Glory
• Jewelry: Neoclassical
• Jewelry: Georgian Era Antique Jewelry
• Lingerie: Austentatious
• Undergarments, Regency: Slideshow
• Making a Man’s Tailcoat
• Of Men and Their Elegance
• Regency Mens Clothes – Pants, Breeches, Pantalons
• Well-dressed Regency Gentleman
• (Men) 19th Century Late Regency Fashion for Men
• Men: Late Regency Era Fashions Worn by Men
• Men’s Clothing: 1811-1812
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• Nineteenth Century Costume and Fashion, Herbert Norris, Oswald Curtis, 1998, Partial Google Book
• Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English: New York Public Library Digital Archive
• Prinny’s Tailor: The Life of Louis Bazalgette
• Regency Era Fashion
• Regency Dress During Jane Austen’s Time
• Regency Glasses and Eyeware
• Regency Fashion
• Regency Fashion in Winter, Linore Rose Burkard
• Regency Handbags: Please Don’t Ridicule My Reticule
• Regency Style: Year by Year
• Probert: Encyclopedia of Costume
• Shoes
• Silk Stockings With Clocks
• Stockings: Hosiery Museum: 18th C. 
• Stockings: Kalen Hughes
• Stockings: 18th Century
• Stays and Corsets, Oregon Regency Society
• Stays, The Regency, Kalen Hughes
• The Corset, Valerie Steele, Partial book available, Google Books
• The History of Corsets, Christina Wilson
• The Culture of Clothing: Daniel Roche and Jean Birrell, 1997, partial Google book
• The Making of the Georgian or Regency Era Waistcoat
• The Man Who Invented the Suit (Beau Brummel), Ian Kelly
• The Mirror of Fashion for January, 1819
• The Regency and the Rest of the High-waisted Era
• The Regency Fashion Page
• The Regency Tailcoat
• The Road to Elegance and Fashion: Men’s Cravats
• Undressing Your Hero
• Undergarments, A Number of Links
• Undergarments, Regency: Slideshow
• Underwear, The History of, Cunnington, 1992, partial Google book
• University of Washington Fashion Plate Collection: Regency
• History of the White Wedding Dress
• Wedding dress, Victorian 1824-1921

Food and Drink (See Dining, above, and Food tags in sidebar)

Funerals and Mourning Customs

• About Funerals in the 19th Century
• Mourning Customs
• Mourning Jewellery
• Mrs. Churchill’s Funeral
• Noire Gloire: 18th Century Mourning
• Question regarding Regency Mourning on Ask Nancy
• Regency Era: Fashion
• Regency Manor House: Scroll to the bottom
• Regency Mourning
• Regency Mourning Clothes
• Regency Mourning Customs, Donna Hatch
• Regency Mourning Fashions and Customs
• Regency Mourning Fashions in England
• Royalty, British: Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
• The Victorian Undertaker – radically different from the Regency

Furnishings (See also Country Houses and Architecture)

• Age of Revivals: Neoclassical Furniture
• Decorative Arts and Design History: Gothic Revival and Design
• Domestic Interiors Database
• English Period Furniture: 1800-1830
• Interior Design in England 1600-1800
• Paint Colors From the Past
• Paint Colors From the Past (more)
• Regency Paint Colors, Fabrics and Furniture
• The Regency Period (PDF Doc) 1800-1830
• Regency Era Furnishings: From Ackermann’s Repository 1809-1812
• Regency Style Decoration
• Regency Style Wallpaper
• Room With a View: Landscape and Wallpaper
• Georgian and Regency Antique Sideboards
• The Regency Style
• Thomas Hope: Furniture

Gardens (See Landscapes and Gardens)

Gentlemanly Pursuits (Also see Leisurely Pursuits and Pets, Animals, and Husbandry)

• A Regency Buck
• Clubs and Club Life in London, John Timbs, 1872, Google book
• Duels and Dueling on the Web
• Dueling: How Dueling Works
• Dueling: The Code of Honor
• Dueling: The Rules of Dueling
• Dueling: The Sharp Edge of
• Dueling and Fencing, Primary Resources
• Dylan’s Fencing Page
• Fowling for Pheasant: Jane Austen’s World
• Fowling: The Georgian Index
• Gentleman’s Clubs
• Gentleman’s Clubs: Regency London
• Georgian Index: Angelo’s Fencing Academy
• Gambling in the Regency Era
• Henry Angelo’s Fencing School
• Hunting: The First of September, 1827
• Lord Byron
• Male Bonding in Early 19th Century British Fiction, Dissertation, PDF Doc
• Officer and a Gentleman: Education
• Pugilism (Boxing) in Georgian England
• Rapier and Small Sword
• Sport Hunting
• Taking Snuff and Snuff Boxes
• The Exploits of William Douglas – third Earl March, Fourth Duke of Queensbury 1725-1810, or Old Q as he was known
• The History of White’s, Algernon Henry Bourke, 1892
• The Life of Beau Brummell, Esq, Commonly Called Beau Brummell, by William Jesse, 1886, partial Google book
• The Society for 18th Century Gentlemen

Grand Tour

• Giusseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome, Interactive
• Grand Tour: Georgian Index
• Italy on the Grand Tour
• Little Dorrit and the Grand Tour: Post on this blog
• Making a Gentleman: Jane Austen’s Brother Abroad
• The Evolution of the Grand Tour, Edward Chaney, 1998, Partial Google book
• The Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th Century: Post on this blog
• The Grand Tour Gallery
• The Grand Tour, Rob Molloy
• The Grand Tour: Word Wenches

Holidays and Important Days

• Another Look at Christmas in the 18th Century
• A Regency Christmas Tree: Post on this blog
• Boxing Day
• Christmas, Monticello.org
• Christmas Dances
• Christmas Feast
• Christmas Music in Colonial Days, Williamsburg
• Christmas Traditions in the Regency Era: Post on this blog
• Christmas Traditions in the UK
• Christmas With the Presidents (US)
• Dickens Christmas: A Victorian Celebration
• Easter
• Easter, Jane Austen’s
• Georgian Christmas Celebrations
• Halloween, Ancient Traditions
• Halloween Traditions
• Happy Christmas, Everyone! (leads to links)
• Hymns and Carols of Christmas, 1852
• December 25, Everyday Book
• Lady Day in the Regency Calendar
• New Year Customs in Great Britain
• May Day
• Mince Meat: Mincemeat Recipes and Mincemeat History
• Punch Magazine, 1868, December 26
• Punch Magazine, 1880, December 25
• Shrove Tuesday
• The Book of Christmas, Thomas Kibble Hervy, 1845
• The Every Day Book (describes days and holidays)
• Victorian Christmas in Print
• Whitsuntide

Houses and Household Duties (See also Country Houses and Architecture and Furnishings)

• History of Housekeeping
• History of Hygiene and Bathing
• History of Wallpaper Styles and their Use
• Queen Anne and Georgian Country Houses
• Rush Lights

Jewelry (Jewellery)

• Austen Regency Accessories
• Georgian and Victorian Jewellery
• Jewellery in the Regency Era
• Jewelry: Regency Period

Ladies Endeavors

• Arts and Entertainments
• Athletic “Womanhood”: Exploring Sources for Female Sport in Victorian and Edwardian England, Cartriona M. Parratt, PDF doc
• Beauty Secrets of a Regency Lady, Susannah Ives
• Becoming a Regency Woman
• Bluestocking Club
• Early Embroidery
• French Hand Fans

• Healthful Sports for Young Ladies, 1822, PDF doc
• History of Embroidery in America: 19th Century
• The Property Rights of Women in 19th Century England
• The Fan Museum, Greenwich
• Regency Fans
• Regency Crafts and Pastimes
• Some Old Time Beauties, Thomas Willing, Project Gutenberg
• The Complexities of Wash Day in the 18th Century
• Vintage Lace Making
• Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House, Joanna Martin, 2004
• Women and Marriage in 19th Century England
• Women’s Education and Accomplishments : The Republic of Pemberley
• Women’s Legal Position in Regency Times
• Worshipful Company of Fan Makers

Landscapes and Gardens

• A Changing View: Jane Austen’s Landscape, Penny Gay
• A History of English Gardening, George William Johnson, 1829, Google Books
• Amusement of Old London,being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century, Volume 2 William Biggs Boulton, 1901, Google eBook
• A Royal History of Windsor, Great Park
• Definitions of Gardeners and their Assistants
• Gardens and Landscapes, Ackermann’s Repository
• Garden Mazes
• Ha Ha: The Invisible Border Between Art and Nature: Pope’s Aesthetic Principle Applied to Art and Poetry
• Humphry Repton’s Red Books
• Jane Austen’s World of English Gardens
• Landscape Narratives: An English Approach to Space
• Orangeries, Conservatories, Glass Houses and Green Gardens
• Parks and Pleasure Gardens of Regency London
• Pleasure Gardens in Georgian and Regency Seaside Resorts: Brighton, 1750-1840, JSTOR
• The English Pleasure Gardens, Sarah Jane Downing
• The Fashionable Hour in Hyde Park
• The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800
• The Herb Garden: Then and Now
• The London Pleasure Garden of the 18th Century, 1896
• Vauxhall Gardens: 1661-1859
• Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early 19th Century, Heath Schenker, 25 p. PDF doc

Law (also see crime)

• Discussion about the differences between Attorney, Lawyer, Barrister, Solicitor, and Notary.
• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in 18th Century England, Lisa Zunshine, partial Google book
• Books on London: Crimes, Court Cases and the Law. Bibliography
• Bow Street Runners, Channel 4
• Caroline Norton and a Woman’s Legal Rights: Post on this blog
• Court Dress for Judges and the Judiciary
• Enlightenment and the Plight of Women
• Entailments in Jane Austen’s Novels
• Family and Society: the History of English Law
• Marriage Settlements in England and Wales
• History of Policing: The Bow Street Runner
• Policing in London, Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Property Law in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
• Property Rights of Women in 19th Century England
• Prostitution in Georgian England
• The Dangerous World of Regency England
• Women and Private Ownership in Regency England
• Women’s Legal Position in Regency Times

Leisurely Pursuits

• Jane Austen and Leisure, David Selwyn, partial book available
• Breaking into Regency Society, Susan Marie Knight, PDF document
• Entertainment for the People
• The London Season
• Astley’s Amphitheatre
• Assembly Card Party
• Card Games of Jane Austen
• Whist
• Regency Games
• Gambling in Historic England
• Georgian Games: Entertainment
• An Evening at Almack’s
• History of Almack’s
• Jane Austen and Leisure, David Selwyn, 1999, partial Google book
• Life in Regency England: More Than Games, 2
• Popular 19th Century Card Games
• Private and Social Reading
• Street of Famous Clubs
• Then and Now: See London as it was then and how it looks now
• The London Season
• The Pursuit of Pleasure, Jane Rendell, 2002, partial Google book
• The Social Life of Coffee, Brian William Cowan, 2005, partial Google book
• Regency Dances
• Dances from Pride and Prejudice
• Late Eighteenth Century Social Dance
• From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth Century Dance, Elizabeth Aldrich, 1991
• Social Dances of the 19th Century
• Lydia in Brighton, PDF document
• Sea Bathing: Read my posts on the topic
• Sea Bathing: Brighton and Hove
• The Level: A Leisure Area Since Regency Times
• The Rage for Music: Concert Life in Regency England
• The Silhouette in Georgian and Regency England
• Theatre Royal: Drury Lane
• Haymarket: Theatre Royal
• Theatrical London
• Parks and Pleasure Gardens
• Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
• Vauxhall Gardens
• The History of Ballooning
• Mother, I’m bored: Or How a Young Lady Found Amusement in the Regency Countryside, by Susan Marie Knight, PDF document,
• Christmas in ritual and tradition, Project Gutenberg

Letters

• An 18th century family letter sent from Scotland to England
• British Letter of Marque With Seal
• Envelope and Letter Folding
• History of the Driffield Post Office
• Guidelines for Writing 19th Century Letters: a fun exercise, but no sources given. PDF doc
• Jane Austen and Letter Folding
• Letters, Letter Writing and Other Intimate Discourse
• Online History of Writing Boxes and Slopes
• Regency Letters: posts on this blog
• Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Sealing Wax and Other Fancy Stuff
• The Regency Post: Pity We’ve Lost Letters
• Writing boxes and slopes

London

• Astley’s Amphitheatre
• Bathing in London from Medieval to Georgian Times
• Chronology of London Bridge
• Flickering Gas Light Illuminates Pall Mall: 1807
• Georgian London – article
• Georgian London – a blog devoted to the topic
• Georgian London Past
• Old London Street Cries
• London Lives
• London Sewers, Part One
• London Sewers, Part Two
• London: The Transformation of a City, PDF Document
• London, Charles Knight, 1841, Google book
• Museum of London
• Promenades through London
• Sir John Soane Museum
• The London of Samuel Johnson

London Pubs, Inns, Taverns, Tea Houses, and Coffee Houses

• The London Coffee House: A Social Institution, Rakehell
• The Devil’s Ordinary: Consuming Public Culture in the Coffee-House

Manners, Etiquette, and Customs

• Posts about Manners and Etiquette on this Blog: Calling Cards, The Regency Fan, Dancing, etc.
• A Sample of Regency Manners
• A Day in 18th Century London: Norton Anthology
• Art of Mourning
• A Tour of the Ballroom
• Forms of Address and Titles in Jane Austen, Joan Austen-Leigh
• Guidelines for Writing 19th Century Letters: a fun exercise, but no sources given. PDF doc
• Hat Etiquette for Women
• Historical Hattiquette
• Historical Regency Ballroom Etiquette
• Introduction to 19th century etiquette
• Manners and Courtesies
• O, Tempora, O Mores!: A column of advice on manners and etiquette, by Arbiter Elegantiae
• Calling Cards and Stationery
• Instances of Ill Manners to Be Avoided by the Youth of Both Sexes
• Becoming Mannered: YouTube Video, James McAvoy
• The Laws of Etiquette by a Gentleman, 1837
• On Vulgarity and Affectation, William Haslitt, From Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners, 1822
• Peerage Basics
• Peerages in Order of Preference
• Presentation at Court
• The Gentlewoman’s Companion: Or, a Guide to the Female Sex
• The Art of Mourning

Victorian

• Etiquette of Ballroom Dancing

Man, Manly, Man’s (See Gentlemanly Pursuits or Leisurely Pursuits)

Maps

• Dickens London Map
• Greenwood’s Map of London
• Images of Early Maps on the Web
• Maps: Scanned Collections Online, British Library
• Old London Maps and Views of the City from the 16th to 19th Centuries
• The Map of Early Modern London

Marriage/Marriage Mart/Courtship

• Bibliography: Comments from authors on books regarding Marriage & Inheritance Laws and Customs, PDF doc
• Eloping During Jane Austen’s Time
• Eloping in Regency England
• Fleet Marriage
• From Fleet Street to Gretna Green: The Reform of Clandestine Marriage, Jennifer M. Payne
• Lord Hardwick’s Marriage Act, 1753
• Love and Courtship in the Time of Jane Austen
• Marriage Act, 1753
• Marriage Customs in Georgian and Regency England
• Marriage Mart
• Marriage Register, An Example
• Marriage Settlements in England and Wales
• Regency Life: Marriage
• Regency Wedding
• The History of the Laws of England as to the Effects of Marriage on Property, Courtney Stanhope Kenney, 1879, full book
• The Pursuit of the Heiress, A. P. W. Malcomson, Ulster Historical Foundation,2006
• Women, Courtship, Marriage and Romance: Victorian London

Medicine

• 17th & 18th Century Apothecary Jars
• Apothecary (The), Herbs, and Herb Garret, PDF document
• Apothecary: Serving History
• Apothecary Items
• Apothecary Pharmacy Museum
• Apothecaries: Picture Library
• Bloodletting: an early treatment used by barbers and surgeons
• Caleb Hillier Parry, 1755-1822, A Notable Provincial Physician, PDF document
• Chelsea Apothecary’s Physick Garden
• Children’s Health in England: 1600-1800
• Dentist, Regency
• Doctors and Medicine in the Regency Era
• History of Barbers
• History of Medicine
• History of Modern Medicine
• History of Quinine
• Images of Medical Instruments in the 18th Century
• Men and Women in Midwivery
• Phisick: Medical Antiques
• Child birth and birth control in the 19th Century
• Pregnancy and Childbirth for the Historical Author
• Reconstruction of an 18th Century Apothecary Shop (Italian)
• Sickness, Treatment, and Death: Regency Manor
• Stabler Leadbetter Apothecary Museum: Alexander, VA
• Start of Organized Medicine: Hungerford Virtual Museum
• Student Paper on 19th Century Medicine: Excellent resource for the medical situation in 19th century England.
• Doctors: Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists and Apothecaries in England
• The Eighteenth Century Dentist
• The Ladies’ Medicine Chest
• The Quack Doctor (blog)
• The Regency Library: Medicine
• The Regency Realm: Medicine and Health Bibliography
• The Regulation of English Midwives in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
• What is Wrong with Marianne? Medicine and Disease in Jane Austen’s England, Laurie and Richard Kaplan, JASNA

Money (See Coins and Economics)

Mourning (See Funerals)

Music and Songs (Also see Dance)

• 18th Century English Music
• Corda Music – Jane Austen’s Music – The Project
• History of the Trombone
• “I Burn With Contempt for My Foes”: Jane Austen’s Music Collections and Women’s Lives in Regency England, Mollie Sandock, 2001
• Jane Austen and Mozart: Classical Equilibrium in Fiction and Music, Robert K. Wallace, 2009, Partial Google Book
• Jane Austen Entertains: Music from Her Own Library (Amazon.com – lists the songs on the CD)
• Jane Austen Program Notes: The Songs of Jane Austen
• Jane Austen Piano
• Music and Jane Austen
• Music, character, and social standing in Jane Austen’s Emma
• Music from the British Royal Court, 1770-1837
• Published Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
• Regency Musical Timeline
• Regency Parlor Music
• Romantic Era Songs: A Site Devoted to Theatre and Popular Songs
• Soft and Loud: Jane Austen and the Pianoforte, JASA
• The History of Music in Bath: Bath Baroque
• The Regency Musical Timeline
• The Songs of Jane Austen
• The Sydney Garden Galas, Austenonly
• The Universal Songster, Jones and Co, 1834

Newspapers and Magazines (see Publications)

Occupations

• 18th Century Parish Books
• A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen, Agnes Porter, Joanna Martin 1998
• Colonial Occupation, Extensive list
• Daily Life in 18th Century England: Male and Female Roles
• Directories, including those for occupations
• Handloom Weavers, Rockingham Forest
• History of Barbers
• Historical Trade Directories
• History of Work, website with images
• Lacemaker Lamps
• History of Making Lace, Techniques
• Prostitution
• Servants (see category below)
• William Henry Pyne: The Costume of Great Britain

Pets, Animals, and Husbandry

• Border Collie Museum
• Dogs: From the Regency Ramble Website
• Dogs in Art
• Fox Hunting Prints
• Great Modern Pictures: Dogs
• Georgian England’s Top Dogs: Georgian Index
• History of the Pug
• History of the Bulldog
• History of the Otter Hound
• Old English Bulldog
• Sheep dog training in 18th century France
• Sheep herding: Herding on the Web
• The Eighteenth Century Goes to the Dogs
• The Nineteenth Century Dog
• Picturing Animals in Britain: 1750-1850, Diana Donald, 2007 (Partial google book)
• Regency Horses
• Thoroughbred Heritage: Breeders and Breeding

Poor

• Booth’s London Poverty Map
• Dr. Johnson’s London, Liza Picard, partial Google book
• Georgians: Poverty
• London Labor and the London Poor, Mayhew. Google Book
• What would London have been like in the 18th century? Forum
• Workhouses

Publications

• Ladies’ Pocket Magazine: 1824-39
• Newspapers and Magazines
• Ackermann’s Costume Plates: Stella Blum, 3 selected pages
• La Belle Assemblee and Ackermann’s Costume Plates
• Ainsworth’s Magazine, 1845
• Sundries: An 18th Century Newsletter (Blog)
• Regency Ladies Magazines
• The Growth of Journalism
• The Literary Gazette, 1828
• The ‘Tuppenny Press And The Birth of English Newspaper
• Journalists: 1750-1820

Religion

• 18th Century Evangelical Revival
• 18th Century Resources: Religion and Theology
• 19th Century Religion
• Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, Project Gutenberg
• Jane Austen’s Clergymen
• Joseph Priestly: Heralds of a Liberal Faith
• Religion, Morals in the 18th Century

Rural (See agriculture)

Servants

• Posts about Servants on this blog: Scullery Maid, Maid of All Work, Housekeeper, Footmen, Link boys, etc.
• A Day in the Life of a Maid of All Work
• Books about Fine Households & Domestic Staff Issues
• Domestic Servants, Victorian Web
• Domestic Servants
• Guide to Servants
• Indenture Contract, 1827: Text Indenture Contract, 1827 high resolution copy of original
• Money (includes servant wages): Word Wenches
• Servant’s Quarters
• The 1900 House: The Scullery
• The Domestic Servant Class in 18th Century England
• The Horror of Dirt: Virginia Woolf and Her Servants, 2008
• The Life and Times of Victorian Servants
• The Servant’s Hall, by a Clergyman, 1849. Full Google book
• The Servants’ Register Office
• Bricks and Brass:Design of the Scullery
• Servants, Bridget Hill

Shopping

• Posts about Shopping on this Blog
• Regency England: Shops and Stores
• More Regency Shopping: Regency Ramble

Sport

• Abraham Cann, Champion of England
• Beagling in Great Britain
• Cockfighting (blood sport)
• Classical Fencing and Historic Sportsmanship
• Cricket in England
• Cricket: Images on Print Online
• Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports, partial Google book
• Healthful Sport for Young Ladies, PDF book, 1822
• History of Sports and Games: 17th-19th Century
• Fox Hunting History
• BBC News: Fox Hunting, The Issues (Includes a history of fox hunting)
• Race History at Newmarket, Suffolk
• The History of Court Tennis
• The National Sport of Great Britain, Henry Alken, partial Google book
• Sport and the Making of Britain, Derek Birley, partial Google book
• Sporting and Leisure: Grosvenor Prints (Click on the images)
• Sports, Georgian Index
• Sports, Pastimes and Recreation: Georgian England, starts on page 74, partial Google book
• Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sport, Tony Collins, 2005

Travel

Also check the extensive travel section under the History tab.

• Archive of this blog’s posts about Regency transportation
• A Closer Look at Carriages and Characters in Pride and Prejudice
• Carriages and their Parts
• Coaches and Carriages
• Discovering Horse Drawn Vehicles
• Georgian Transport: Brickfields
• How Jane Austen’s Characters Got Around
• Late 19th Century Modes of Transportation
• Road Transport Before the Car, Pages 37-50
• Images of Sedan Chairs
• Stage Travel in Britain: Georgian Index
• The Stage Coaches of Great Britain
• The World of 19th Century Coach Travel
• Transportation in the 19th Century
• Transports of Delight: How Jane Austen’s Characters Got Around, Ed Ratcliffe
• Letter Writing, Road Transport, and the Mail
• Wild Horse Books and Art

Vocabulary

• 1736 Canting Dictionary
• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
• 18th Century Thieves’ Cant
• A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, 1890
• Age of Sail: Vocabulary Links
• Canting Dictionary
• Heyer’s Cant and Slang
• Regency Lexicon
• Regency Slang, Georgian Index

Wedding (See Marriage/Marriage Mart)

Women (See Ladies Endeavors)

Work, Workers (See Occupations or Servants)

General

• 18th Century Social Order: Peasants and Aristos
• Georgian England and the Regency
• Books on Social Customs: London, Bryn Mawr College Bibliography
• Life in Regency England, White and Batsford, partial book is available
• Jane Austen and Leisure, David Selwyn, partial book available
• Georgian, Regency, and Victorian Research
• The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space, and Architecture in Regency London, Jane Rendell, partial book available
• Understanding the Society in Which Jane Austen Sets Pride and Prejudice, Pamela Whalan, JASA
• Jane Austen: A Companion, Josephine Ross, Rutgers U. Press, 2003, partial book available
• Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture, Richard Handler & Daniel Alan Segal, 1999, partial book available
• Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996
• Writer’s Resources:Includes extensive links to historical and social sites

Societies

• The Beau Monde
• We Make History

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