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Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

March 08, 2017 in 19th Century and Onwards, Historical Books, History, Reading

One of the reasons I love reading Victorian/Regency novels is that I get a glimpse of the everyday rituals, strange to us now, that were so important to the people performing them. One of those rituals that always seemed at once charming and terrifying to me was the obligation of the morning call 0r social visit. … Read More

A Mrs Beeton recipe: Tomatoes, Stuffed, With Mushrooms

March 16, 2015 in 19th Century and Onwards, Food, Historical Books, History, Reading

Last year, I found a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management in a secondhand book store, and snapped it up eagerly. It isn’t obvious when it was printed. A previous owner wrote her name and the year 1944, but certain things made me believe this was already a few years old when she got it – for … Read More

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Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

A Mrs Beeton recipe: Tomatoes, Stuffed, With Mushrooms

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