Assembly Room – Round-up of Regency and historical posts

Assembly Room – Round-up of Regency and historical posts
by The Beau Monde member Angelyn Schmid.

Rakes are popular as heros in Regency romance novels. And who doesn’t love a bad boy who is willing to improve himself for the love of a good woman? But not all real-life rakes were as romantic as their fictional counterparts. In today’s article, Regency romance author, Angelyn Schmid, shares her research into the history…
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: "You can’t think I’m going to totter all over London looking at a lot of buildings I don’t want to see! Very happy to take you driving in the Park, but that’s coming it too strong, my dear girl! … Besides, I don’t know anything about these curst…
Assembly Room – Roundup of Regency posts by Angelyn Schmid
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: Coursing was a field sport popular with many gentlemen during the Regency, though it is not often mentioned in novels set during that time. And when it is part of the story, the details noted are often incorrect. The practices and rules of coursing have changed over the years,…
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: Today, when most of us have some kind of furnace or other form of central heating in our homes, a fireplace is a luxury. Often, a luxury we typically enjoy only on special occasions. For our Regency ancestors, during the winter months their fireplace might literally be the difference…
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: Perhaps abandoned is a more appropriate description of the fate of this live-saving practice by the medical community in the early years of the Regency. Surely I must be mistaken, as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, that which the English call mouth-to-mouth ventilation, was not known until the mid-twentieth century? Sadly, there…
