Short cuts
Dec 06, 2020
1 minute
an Mortimer’s THE TIME TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO REGENCY BRITAIN (The Bodley Head, ebook from $17.99) is an “ingenious guidebook” were you to find yourself whisked back. Mortimer, who has also written entertaining and enlightening guides to medieval and Elizabethan England, finds plenty of weirdness in the Regency. Stylish ladies shaved off their eyebrows and replaced them with mice-hide ones, notes the . A doctor told the teenage William Pitt, who would one day be Prime Minister, that he should drink a bottle of port a day to ward off gout.
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