Before telegraphs or telephones, email or texts, Twitter or Facebook, letter writing was the only way to maintain connections with distant family and friends. During the Regency era, writing letters, reading them, and sharing the news they contained was an essential part of social life, one largely slated for the women of the household.  Typically, women would write letters in the morning, before breakfast. They kept track of the letters they received and to whom … Continue reading →