Dancing the Maypole
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I will regularly produce illustrated articles relating to the English Regency period, which will be published here. Please do come back from time to time and check for new articles. In the meantime please read and enjoy the articles below.
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A trip to Ickworth House A few years ago I started reading a biography on Horace Walpole, the author of the gothic novel Otranto, which was a best seller during Regency England. I didn’t finish the biography, but before I abandoned it my curiosity was hooked by an almost incidental remark that his real father was thought to be one Carr Hervey - Lord Hervey who was born 1691 and died in 1723 unmarried without any known issue. Read more... |
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A visit to Newstead Abbey; The ancestral home of Lord Byron George Gordon Lord Byron was no more than an oft mentioned character in Regency romances until my sixteenth year when curiosity drove me to thumb through a book of his poems at the library. The author would have been deeply insulted by my disinterest, but two poems did catch my eye; ‘Dante’s Column’ and ‘The Black Friar’. For some unfathomable reason I decided to try to put these two poems to music and strangely they’ve stuck in my brain long after most of my other attempts at song writing have been forgotten. Read more... |
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