A Husband’s lot: The Gander Month
For a culture built on distinct lines of male authority, the weeks surrounding a birth were a startling reversal.
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Recovering from Delivery: Confinments and Lying In
Unlike women today, who often give birth in hospitals or birthing centers, women in the Georgian and Regency periods almost always gave birth at home.
Continue reading →Books and Chocolate~April 2026
Planning some vacation time soon has got me thinking of travel and books with travel and adventure. Here’s one with dragons that I think you will enjoy. Just so you know, links below are Amazon associate links, so if you buy anything through them, I will get a couple of pennies from that. A Natural History of Dragons “You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more … Continue reading →
You Can’t Say That~A bit of Pother
Here we go, deep into the rabbit hole again, with a unique, and possibly unfamiliar phrase! So could or would my characters have said “A bit of pother”?
Continue reading →Childbirth in the early 1800s
Childbirth in the Georgian and Regency periods, roughly 1714 to 1837, was not understood as a single dramatic event followed by a quick return to normal life
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