May at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
The Victorians took mourning and customs around death to new levels—and it is to them that we tend to think of when we look back at the past. But the Regency era was not quite as strict in its customs around death. Situated between Georgians and Victorians, the Regency era has a little of each its traditions around death. This workshop will seek to dispel a few myths—women did sometimes attend funerals—and shed some light on how Regency funerals and attitudes shaped the views, and sometimes the worries, about death and dying.
Over two weeks, we’ll cover:
- Lesson One: The Death Bed (assumes natural causes)
- Lesson Two: Wake The Dead
- Lesson Three: Funeral Furnishing
- Lesson Four: Mourning Customs
- Lesson Five: Memento Mori and Ephemera
- Lesson Six: Dealing with Royal Deaths
Registration closes May 11, 2026
Breakfast at ten o’clock in the morning, supper at one o’clock in the morning: it’s perhaps the schedule you’d expect from a teenager today, not a Regency lady.
But when it comes to living a day in the life of the titled and entitled, we have to leave a huge number of our assumptions at the door.
Whether you writing romance and need to know when it would be appropriate to visit a prospective wife and her family, you write mysteries and need to know how often a lady would visit her modiste, or you’re just trying to untangle when afternoon tea was invented (much later than you think!): it’s time to talk personal servants.
If you’ve ever wondered:
- When a shooting party would go out?
- Whether a lady would breakfast in bed or downstairs with the family?
- When a gentleman would visit his club?
- The difference between a walk, promenade, and outing?
Then this is the course for you.
Registration closes May 25, 2026
