Isaac Watts: Author of Joy to the World
Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and na...
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'In the Tradition of Jane Austen': The Life of Georgette Heyer
The inventor of the 'Regency Romance', 100 years after Jane Austen...
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Who is Sandy Lerner?
where did this Fairy Godmother of English women's literature appear from?
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Kate Greenaway: Regency Revivalist
The artist who brought Regency Style to the Victorian Era
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Rudolph Ackermann and his Repository of Arts
Mr. Ackermann's shop in the Strand was the famous Repository of Arts, a print and picture emporium founded in 1796 by Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834)...
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Hannah More: Expert Abolitionist
Championing the poor and underprivileged in Regency society
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Rolinda Sharples: Painter of the Everyday
Rolinda Sharples (1793–1838), was an English painter who specialized in portraits and genre paintings in oil. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, a...
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Ozias Humphrey (1742-1810)
Ozias Humphrey (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century....
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
"So prettily done! Just as your drawings always are, my dear. I do not know any body who draws so well as you do. The only thing I do not thorou...
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