Posts Tagged ‘regency england’
Rebel of the Regency
I’ve been following Ann Foster around the internet for awhile now. In her popular podcast, Vulgar History, and now in her substack Vulgar History A La Carte, Foster uses wit and impeccable research to shine the light on historical women whose stories have been forgotten or told through a misogynist lens. Obviously this is my…
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The Profligate Son
From Jane Austen’s Wickham through Charles Dicken’s array of extravagant cads to the latest Regency romance, the dissipated wastrel who throws away his family fortune, or at least his good name, is a familiar character to anyone who reads novels written (or set) in Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. They drink,…
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