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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The Birth of an Heir
How a Letter got from Here to There
For decades British the system was slow, expensive and unreliable. During the Regency era, the postal system experienced dramatic changes.
Continue reading →The Regency Laptop
Ubiquitous as the laptop computer is today, the writing desk or writing slope, played major role in the creation of novels by Jane Austen, the Brontës, and others, that still enjoy wide readership today.
Continue reading →Giving birth: Confinements, Lying-in and Churching
Unlike women today who often give birth in hospitals or birthing centers, women of Jane Austen’s day almost exclusively gave birth at home. Preparation for confinement fell almost exclusively to the mother.
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