An important week for Joanne Major and Sarah Murden of All Things Georgian. They’re having to cope with all the excitement over their new book about Grace Dalrymple, An Infamous Mistress, which has just been published by Pen & Sword. But they still managed to find time to amuse us with the story of Newcastle’s Old Judy, the fearsome protector of the ‘town hutch’ (the coffer where all the taxes were kept).
From @MadameGilflurt‘s archives: Fanny Burney’s breast surgery. (I also recommend Kate Chisholm’s biography: Fanny Burney: Her Life)
Black Cultural Archives (a bus ride away from me in Brixton, south London) blogged about child prodigy and poet Phillis Wheatley, a “free” resident of Boston, who features in their Black Georgians exhibition (closes 9 April 2016).
I do have a cat but I’m not about to tweet cats. But I so loved this:
A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat: 10 April 1789. pic.twitter.com/ctKqw4WwvA
— Lindsey Fitzharris (@DrLindseyFitz) January 4, 2016
And finally, keeping things real so that we remember how bad things once were… @TheftFromMaster tweets every 8 hours what English servants were convicted of stealing from their masters 1823-1841, and how they were punished.
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