Ranging from high-born to low.
Love
Lady Georgiana Lennox and her adventures with the 1st Duke of Wellington
An enduring and intriguing friendship.
In sickness and in health: a late Georgian aristocratic marriage – John Pitt, the Earl of Chatham, and Mary Elizabeth Townshend
Surprising for an aristocratic match.
The Bloody Countess: A guest post by Catherine Curzon
Read about the vengeful Hanoverian Clara Elisabeth von Platen
1814: The death of Lavinia Robinson, the Manchester Ophelia
She was accused of “a want of chastity.”
Catherine Tylney-Long: A quadruple-barrelled surname was never going to work
An heiress makes a disastrous mistake. A guest post by Mike Rendell.
An altercation in Taunton between Tom Woodforde and Don Whiskerandos
Tom Woodforde sued James Vibart in 1817 for damages after a violent fight in Taunton.
The Neglected Daughter
Left out in the cold after transgressing.
The scandalous love triangle of Maria Foote, William Berkeley and Joseph ‘Pea Green’ Hayne
Everyone just lied and lied.
Social climbing: Regency boarding schools
My guest post at geriwalton.com
1810: Annette Paris overdoses on laudanum
Traumatised, mentally disturbed and deeply unhappy
Elopement in Georgian England: Catherine Grierson and Thomas Thomasson (1781)
1781: A young lady elopes from her boarding school. The tale of Catherine Grierson and Thomas Thomasson. The case ends up in court.
Elopement board game (1820)
An 1820 board game themed with elopement – flight, pursuit, and marriage at Gretna Green.
Thomas Cochrane and Kitty Barnes
1812: The elopement of naval hero, politician, inventor and radical Thomas Cochrane with Katherine (Kitty) Barnes to Scotland.
Elopement in Vauxhall Gardens popular song
The Honeymoon: An elopement song performed by Mary Ann Wrighten (1751-1796) at Vauxhall Gardens.
John Fane and Sarah Anne Child
1782: John Fane and Sarah Anne Child married at Gretna Green. Her fabulously wealthy banker father cut her off without a penny.