Copyright @Jane Austen’s World. Gentle readers, as you know, the northeast has been socked in by snow, ice, gale winds, and bitterly cold temperatures today. This is a perfect time for hunkering inside and drinking hot chocolate. Or is it? My nephew’s children will go sledding, others will go ice skating, and my dog will […]
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Snow Sports and Winter Transportation in the Regency Era
Posted in 18th Century England, 19th Century England, Georgian Life, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Customs, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency Travel, tagged 18th century skating, 19th century skating, 19th century sleds, regency winter on December 27, 2010| 18 Comments »
Winter, Regency Style
Posted in Regency Frost Fairs, Regency Winters on February 1, 2023| 7 Comments »
Gentle readers, I am in the throes of moving – packing, mover transportation, closings, mortgage payments and the like – all within the next 3 weeks. And so I am unable to complete the themes I’ve researched. Still, I’d like to offer a post during this wintery time of year, which, in my area, has […]
Review of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830, by Ian Mortimer.
Posted in Book review, Jane Austen's World, Regency Period, tagged Ian Mortimer, Regency Books, Regency History on June 5, 2022| 9 Comments »
Strictly speaking the oficial Regency lasted from 1811 to 1820, but the author, Ian Mortimer, takes the reader on a journey to Great Britain – England, Wales and Scotland – from 1789 to 1830, a time period that is in line with most other historians, literary critics and antiques experts. This book achieves something unique […]
Seaside Fashion, Regency Style
Posted in Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, Sea bathing during the Regency era, tagged Bathing machines, Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Regency seaside fashions, Vanity Fair 1998 on August 14, 2009| 9 Comments »
Inquiring reader, in honor of this week’s tepid heat wave in Richmond, I continue my coverage of all things seaside during the Regency era. To our moderns eyes, Regency fashions by the seashore covered as much of the body as ordinary clothes, and were as complicated as regular fashions. Let’s take a closer look. I […]
Cost of Maintaining a Horse in Regency London
Posted in jane austen, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, Travel, tagged carriages, Coaches, Cost of a horse in London, Gower Mews, Regency Transportation, Regency Travel on June 18, 2009| 9 Comments »
The cost of maintaining horses and carriages in London was extremely expensive in Regency England. It still is today.
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