Author Archives: Susanna

Eating in Georgian London: How to Buy Meat and Poultry, Sample Menus and Much Much More

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Susanna

It’s time for another exciting installment from The London Adviser and Guide!  Today we will learn how to purchase meat and poultry in Georgian London. To break up the text, I’m inserting images of course settings from various cookbooks from … Continue reading →

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British Household Expenditures in 1829

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Susanna

This afternoon, I was searching for images of dinner settings for my next post from The London Adviser and Guide  when I came across some charts of sample household expenses from 1829 in a volume titled  The Home Book : … Continue reading →

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Illustrations and Instructions for Hair Dressing from 1867

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susanna

Images from The Self-instructor in the Art of Hair Work: Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair Jewelry of Every Description, by Mark Campbell, published in 1867. Click on an image to enlarge it. 

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Morning Dress, Opera Dress, Murder Dress — Fashions and Poisons from the Late 1820s

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Susanna

So, you’re writing along on your next historical fiction masterpiece and you come to that place in your story where a character has to die by a “sedative and narcotic poison.” The first thing you think is: what does the … Continue reading →

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Fashion Gallery from R. Ackermann’s Repository of Fashions in 1829

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Susanna
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