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1809 Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Byerley China Showrooms in Jane Austen’s times in York Street, London. #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #London #trade

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1809 Wedgwood and Byerley showrooms for Wedgwood china, York Street, London, UK. Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts. The premises of master potter Josiah Wedgwood in York Street, St James’ Square, London, U.K. Wedgwood china was known for its high quality, beautiful glazes and Wedgwood trademark printed on the back of each item. The London show-room was managed by Thomas Byerley, who also held a quarter share of the business. From 1790 to 1810 the firm was known as Wedgwood and Byerley. Josiah Wedgwood had smallpox as a child with left him with a weakened knee so he couldn’t work the foot pedal of a potter’s wheel. Instead, he concentrated on designing pottery and unique glazes. By 1763, he was commissioned by high ranking British people, including Queen Charlotte.

In 1780, his longtime partner died and Wedgwood’s left leg had been amputated so he asked Erasmus Darwin to help run the business and their children married. The Wedgwood inheritance allowed Charles Darwin to pay for being a naturalist. From 1786 to 1789, Wedgwood took on the project of duplicating the Portland Vase from the 1st century BD. His two sons took over the business and Josiah died at home in 1795. During his life, he helped invent modern marketing and direct mail, money-back guarantees, traveling salesmen, self-service, free deliver, buy one get one free and illustrated catalogs.

1809 Wedgwood and Byerley showrooms, York Street, London, UK. Plate via Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts.
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Book Hooks: Ironic that Lady Melton and her unborn child had been safer in battle-torn Europe than in England.  #MilitaryRomance #RegencyRomance #BattleofWaterloo

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Love After. Waterloo: Blurb: When Lady Melton and her son, Daniel, are forced to join antagonistic Captain Belling and the last group of wounded British soldiers evacuating Waterloo and traveling back to London, she expects clashes with army deserters. What she doesn’t anticipate is how much she and her son will need the belligerent Captain after they reach London. https://books2read.com/suziloveLAW

Book Hook: Lady Melton had conversed with gentlemen in Brussels who’d held similar views to the Captain, and who had looked down their aristocratic noses at any lady who defied tradition. Explaining her long-term interest in medicine to men who assumed that ladies lived to sip, shop, and embroider had been futile, and one of many reasons that she’d gladly left London and traveled to the Continent to live with her brothers. Ironic that she and her unborn child had been safer in battle-torn Europe than in the country of her birth, and sad that she and Daniel were now forced to return to family members that she disliked and a claustrophobic lifestyle that she barely tolerated.

She glanced around the Captain’s headquarters. Most of the walls remained intact, so at least she and her son would be partially protected from the elements tonight. Her brothers’ house hadn’t fared so well. British infantrymen had commandeered a French cannon and had been dragging it down the road towards Brussels when it had misfired. The shell had gone high over the trees and exploded near Brendon’s camp-side hospital. The majority of the roof had collapsed, dragging down large sections of the walls, and forcing them to sleep in army tents the past few nights.

Despite Wellington’s victory over Napoleon four days earlier, soldiers, to use the term loosely, still lingered around Waterloo. They and deserters from both sides had joined local famers in picking through the remains of bodies, uniforms, and armory to pilfer anything of value. There’d been nowhere safe to hide a lady and her son, so her brothers had packed what remained of their equipment and taken them, along with a few wounded British soldiers, to the Captain’s quarters, knowing that his orders were to protect whoever remained of French stragglers and deserters. 

The twins hadn’t lingered, because Wellington and what was left of his British troops were marching back towards Brussels and Brendon’s skills as a physician were urgently needed. Benjamin, an aide to Wellington, had stayed to organize the repatriation of their soldiers and the departure of their sister and nephew.

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1814 Statistics On Classes, Properties and Population In Great Britain. #JaneAusten #BritishHistory #Regency #Statistics

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1814 Statistics On Classes, Properties and Population In Great Britain. From: 1814 A Treatise On Wealth and Power. By Patrick Colquhoun. These are the statistics for England in Jane Austen’s time, or the early 1800s, or Regency Era.

1814_1813 Public Income and Public Expenditure In Great Britain. From 1814 Patrick Colquhoun's A Treatise On Wealth and Power.
1814 New Properties Created Yearly In the Colonies and Dependencies Annexed to the British Crown. From 1814 Patrick Colquhoun's A Treatise On Wealth and Power.
1814 increase of Houses and Population In Cities and Around the Country In Great Britain. By Patrick Colquhoun's A Treatise On Wealth and Power.
1814 General View of the Population of the East India Company's Territorial Possessions. By Patrick Colquhoun's A Treatise On Wealth and Power.
1814_1812-1813 ca. Property Created In Great Britain and ireland. By Patrick Colquhoun's A Treatise On Wealth and Power.
1814 1801-1811 ca. Increase Of Inhabitants of Great Britain in the Country and the Towns. By Patrick Colquhoun's A Treatise On Wealth and Power.
1814_1700-1811 ca. Population Increases in Great Britain. From Patrick Colquhoun's 1814 A Treatise On Wealth and Power
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1827 ca. Mahogany Gentleman’s Dressing Box With Silver Topped Bottles, London. #RegencyEra #Antiques #London

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1827 ca. Gentleman’s Dressing Box, London. Mahogany box with brass carrying handles, lid opens to velvet and leather interior with twelve engraved silver topped bottles, all with an engraving of an oak tree engraving, ivory handled cut throat razors, scissors, boot pulls, tongue scraper, section for letters etc. Top tray lifts out to another tray of tools. via Antique Tea Caddies, U.K.

1827 ca. Mahogany Gentleman’s Dressing Box With Silver Topped Bottles, London. #RegencyEra #Antiques #London books2read.com/suziloveBoxesCases
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Jane Austen and the Bridgerton family and contemporaries used boxes of metal, leather, or silks, decorated with jewels and engraving. #Bridgerton #Travel #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Antiques

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Craftsmen created containers of precious metals, leather, and silks and decorated them with jewels and engraving. Jane Austen and her contemporaries would have used writing boxes, linen boxes when travelling, boxes to hold their food and drink supplies while traveling by carriage, and decorative boxes to keep letters, ribbons, gloves, hairpins etc. Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires By Suzi Love, History Notes Book 11. books2read.com/suziloveBoxesCases.

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1818 May Morning and Evening Fashionable Dresses As Worn By the Bridgerton Ladies. #bridgerton #RegencyFashion #FashionPlate

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1818 May Morning and Evening Fashionable Dresses, English. Pale blue dress, heavily decorated with lace, matching hat and with hand held glasses. Lavender dress with low cut bodice, tiny sleeves, lace decoration on the hem, white paisley shawl, long white gloves and large bonnet. Fashion Plate via Lady’s Magazine.

Definition: Morning Walking Dress: Worn out shopping, walking in a city park or the country estate. Presentable and warm, more fashionable than relaxed Morning Dress but not heavily accessorized apart from a shawl that was usually added for warmth.

Definition Evening Dress: There were minute distinctions between ball, dinner, evening and opera gowns, which meant different quality of fabrics and designs. A Ball Gown differed from an evening dress as expensive silk fabrics were usually worn, light or heavy, decorated with lace, embroidery or beading, with low-cut bodice, short or no sleeves, and full skirts. In the early 1800s, white cotton dresses were considered suitable for many evening events, but not for balls. And definitely not for an evening event in a palace. White dresses with white embroidery for evening were considered fashionable and exclusive as only the wealthy could afford them.

Lorgnette: Eye glass on a long ornamental handle, into which glasses fold when not in use. Also opera glasses, especially with long handle.

1818 May Morning and Evening Fashionable Dresses, English. Pale blue dress, heavily decorated with lace, matching hat and holding glasses. Lavender dress with low cut bodice, tiny sleeves, lace decoration on the hem, white paisley shawl, long white gloves and large bonnet. Fashion Plate via Lady’s Magazine.
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1823 Blue Silk Pelisse, or Coat, Decorated With Rouleaux and Vandyke Points. #Regency #Fashion #Pelisse

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1823 Pelisse or Redingote or Walking dress, or Coat, English. Made for a wedding trousseau in 1823. Intricate decoration from rouleaux applied in floral shapes, and trimmed with wire wrapped in silk thread which stands out from the garment in loops at the ends. ‘Vandyke’ style of pointed shoulder pieces were fashionable at the time. Via Museum Of London, UK.

Definition Redingote Or Pelisse Or Walking Dress Or Coat: French word developed from English words, riding coat. Long fitted outdoor coat worn over other garments for warmth. Often left open at the front to show off the dress underneath. Sometimes cut away in front. Originally made with several capes and trimmed with large buttons. French fashion plates call these coats Redingotes and they are designed for women, men and children. English fashion plates call them a Pelisse, a walking dress, Promenade dress, or Carriage dress. books2read.com/suzilovePelisse

Definition Vandyke: Edging of v-shaped points, the name coming from the Flemish painter, Sir Anthony Vandyke, who was known for his short pointed beard.

1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
1823 Blue Pelisse Or Redingote, British. Made for a trousseau for a wedding. via Museum of London.
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1819 January Mourning Winter Carriage and Evening Dresses. #Regency #Mourning #Fashion

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1819 January Two Fashion Plates By Dean and Mundy For Mourning: Winter Carriage and Evening Dresses. High-waisted carriage dress, cuffs edged with white lace and trimmed with gray frog closures, matching plumed hat and shawl. Empire style evening dress with short sleeves and wide neckline trimmed with scallops of white lace, skirt trimmed with white rosettes, evening upswept hairstyle. Fashion Plates Published by Dean and Munday, 1819, London.

Mourning wear was worn in Britain during the regency Era, firstly for Princess Charlotte who died in England on November 6th, 1817, or then for Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III and grandmother of Princess Charlotte, who died on November 17th, 1818. All the fashion magazines featured numerous outfits in black suitable for mourning, followed by many for half mourning in colors of grey, black with touches of white, and later mauve or lavender.

Black was worn for full mourning with various other colors were worn during the months of half mourning, including grey and mauve. However, as black dresses, black tunics, and black lace shawls were popular throughout the Regency years, it is often hard to decide what was definitely made for mourning and what was simply fashionable wear.

After the death of H.R. H. Princess Charlotte on November 7th, 1817, official court mourning was ordered. ‘The ladies to wear black bombazines, plain muslin or long lawn crape hoods, shamoy shoes and gloves, and crape fans. The gentlemen to wear black cloth without buttons on the sleeves or pockets, plain muslin or long lawn cravats and weepers, shamoy shoes and gloves, crape hat bands, and black swords and buckles.’ Two months later, a change of mourning attire was ordered.

1819 January Winter Carriage and Evening Dresses, London, UK. Possibly mourning wear Princess Charlotte died in England in 1817. High-waisted dresses trimmed with white lace and pink rosettes, high outdoor hat and evening upswept hairstyle. Via Suzi Love. suzilove.com & Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Street, London, UK.
1819 January. Winter Carriage and Evening Dresses. High-waisted carriage dress, cuffs edged with white lace and trimmed with gray frog closures, matching plumed hat and shawl. Empire style evening dress with short sleeves and wide neckline trimmed with scallops of white lace, skirt trimmed with white rosettes, evening upswept hairstyle. Mourning wear for Princess Charlotte who died in England in 1817 or for another member of the Royal family. Fashion Plate Published by Dean and Munday, London.
1819 January. Winter Carriage and Evening Dresses, London, U.K. High-waisted carriage dress, trimmed with front closures, matching plumed hat. Empire style evening dress with tiny sleeves and wide neckline trimmed with white lace on sleeves, skirt trimmed with rows of frills. Fashion Plate Published by Dean and Munday, 1819, London.
1819 January. Winter Carriage and Evening Dresses, London, U.K. High-waisted carriage dress, trimmed with front closures, matching plumed hat. Empire style evening dress with tiny sleeves and wide neckline trimmed with white lace on sleeves, skirt trimmed with rows of frills. Fashion Plate Published by Dean and Munday, 1819, London.
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What was fashionable in Bridgerton and Jane Austen’s times? Mourning, riding, daytime, evening fashion plus underclothing. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion

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What was fashionable for women in Jane Austen’s times? Mourning, riding, daytime, evening clothing, plus underclothing, corsets and accessories. Fashion Women 1810-1814 History Notes Book 27 This book looks at what was fashionable for women in Jane Austen’s times, or the early 1800s, or the Regency Era in Britain. Wars were being fought around the globe so women’s fashion adopted a military look in support of soldiers. Fashions, like the lifestyle, became progressively more extravagant and accessories went from colorful to over-the-top. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveFashion1810-1814

The Lady’s Magazine said of the basis of women’s fashion that was popular for the first twenty years of the 1800s, ‘White is still the prevailing color for robes. For morning dresses, linen gowns, in large diamonds or squares, are fashionable. Indian muslins, plain or embroidered, are preferred to Florence and satins. The designs of embroidery for shawls are of infinite variety. Long gloves, which reach above the elbow, are not yet laid aside. Medallions are hung around the neck from crossed chains and some of these medallions are shaped like the bags, called ridicules. These reticules are of the lozenge or hexagon shape, with a small tassel at each angle. Reticules, or ridicules, are in lozenge or hexagon shapes with a small tassel at each angle. In capotes, or hats, and ribbands, the violet and dark green prevail over jonquil. Bracelets in hair, pear-shaped ear-rings, medallions on square plates, saltiers of colored stones, are still in fashion.’

These are the types of outfits worn by Jane Austen and contemporaries in English magazines, where French fashions were obsessively copied despite the two countries being at war for many years. In Jane Austen’s years, she and her contemporaries spent a lot of time walking outdoors. People were encouraged to partake in outdoor pursuits to maintain good health. Fragile slippers were worn for balls and evening events but for walking sturdier shoes were needed, In the early 1800s, these were typically made of leather, had a very small heel, slightly rounded toes and were laced up on the top.

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Love Bridgerton and Jane Austen fashions? Mourning, riding, daytime, evening fashions plus corsets and underclothing. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion

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Are you a reader or writer of Regency Romance? Love Jane Austen’s books? Want to know more about the mourning, riding, underclothing and other Regency Era women’s fashions in Regency romances? What was fashionable for women in Jane Austen’s times? Mourning, riding, daytime, evening clothing, plus underclothing, corsets and accessories. This book looks at what was fashionable for women in Jane Austen’s times, or the early 1800s, or the Regency Era in Britain. Wars were being fought around the globe so women’s fashion adopted a military look in support of soldiers. Fashions, like the lifestyle, became progressively more extravagant and accessories went from colorful to over-the-top.

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