Category Archives: Regency Life
Dangerous, even deadly: Teething in Jane Austen’s World
!8th century French physician Jean Baumes (1783) wrote “All experience teaches that dentition is to be dreaded.” Why the dread?
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When Boys Wore Dresses
What’s Mother to Do?: Infancy during the Regency era
Like so many other facets of society, childrearing also underwent significant changes during the Regency Era.
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