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I just saw the COOLEST show on the Science channel.  Mudlarking on the Thames.  Metal detecting during low tides, digging in the muck and mud in London and co

Its time for the final 9 pearls of a wisdom from A Lady (1813).   If you are catching up, we presented the first 10 Maxims here from A Treatise on Politeness

Every once and a while you may see a self-help type book pop up on my Good Reads shelf.  They may have funny titles, like “Living with Less” or “The Happ

This article appeared in the August 1803 issue of The Lady's Monthly Museum, and describes a scene familiar from literature and Regency romances about disappoin

Perhaps proving a universal truth that insults are best served in rhyming stanzas, this delightful bickering was published in The Spirit of English Wit; Or, Pos

Puzzle purses were one way lovers could exchange "Valentines" as early as the 1700s.  Constructed from paper folded in intricate origami style, each panel woul

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This is the fourth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) seri

This is the fifth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) serie

This is the fourteenth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809)

This is the seventh post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) ser

This is the fifteenth post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) s

Flowers have their own language.  Floriography, or the cryptological communication through flower use or arrangement, has been practiced for centurie

This is the third post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) serie

This is the second post in our new Men and Manners, Maxims for life by a Gentleman (Men and Manners ; Or, Concentrated Wisdom. 4th Ed. Much Enlarged, 1809) seri