Regency london

William Marlow (1740-1813) — View of Ludgate Street from Ludgate Hill, with the West Front of St Paul's Cathedral, London : The Bank of England Museum, , London. UK (736x944)

Queen Anne's Gate, London, UK. By Andrew.

Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens were a fashionable outdoor entertainment during the Georgian era. You can find out what the gardens were like in my earlier blog: Vauxhall Gardens in the Regency. When setting a scene in Vauxhall, I have found it helpful to know my way around the pleasure gar

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It is easy to think of the Regency as romantic – duels, elopements, dashing bucks and gorgeous gowns. But the slang of the period soon dispels that, as do the some of the images of the time, …

The stories of squares 1-10, Jane Austen's London

Book Giveaway! – see end of post for details I love London – I had the fortune to spend a semester there in 1968 – the late 60s, a crazy invigorating time the likes the world has never seen a…

“A woman’s reputation is as brittle as it is beautiful,” notes Elizabeth Bennett in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a classic of Regency-era England. Indeed, being a woman in these times was far from easy. Of course, ladies of the upper and upper-middle classes didn’t have to worry about ending…