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Regency Women of Character: Miss Sarah Booth
This feature on Sarah Booth appeared in the April 1812 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum. Born in 1793 in Birmingham, she was discovered in Manchester as a dancer in 1804. After several successful...
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Regency Advertisements: Dialogues on Botany
Appeared in the July 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee. Dialogues on Botany for the Use of Young Persons was published in 1819 and written by Maria Edgeworth. You can view a Google scanned … Continue →
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Regency Women of Character: Francis Maria Kelly
-The Lady’s Monthly Museum, June 1812 Kelly would continue acting until 1835. In 1833, she established a drama school at the Royal Strant Theatre, which is now the oldest drama school, on record, in...
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Regency Women of Character: Sarah Wilkinson
A writer and entrepreneur, Sarah Wilkinson (1779-1831) teetered between middle class and penury for most of her life. Arguably one of the most prolific writers of gothic chapbooks or bluebooks,...
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Regency Women of Character: Anecdotes of Illustrious Females
From La Belle Assemblée October 1817 issue. Many moons ago, we did a post on Sarah Siddons here: Regency Women of Character: Sarah Siddons – Continue →
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Regency Women of Character: Anne Gunn
Anne Gunn nee Young (1756-1813) was a Scottish music teacher and inventor of a set of board games, Musical Games, created to teach children musical Continue →
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Regency Women of Character: Ann Alexander
The Journal of the Friends’ Historical Society (1927) In 1801, Ann Barber of Eckington married William Alexander, and they began their life in London. Ann Continue →
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Regency Women of Character: Ladies in Masquerade
From the April 1802 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum, comes a story of two young women who determine, for survival, the need to masquerade Continue →
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