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Real Regency Heroes: Olinthus Gregory

by Gail Eastwood Posted on March 14, 2022

Just in time for “National Pi Day” on 3/14* (not National “Pie” Day—Jan 23), I’d like to introduce to you one the Regency era’s finest mathematical minds, Dr. Olinthus Gilbert Gregory. I fell in love with him first just for … Continue reading →

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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Part 5 (How to Bottle the Scent of Success)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on June 14, 2021

We’ve already covered so much in the first four parts of this series since April (see links below), but there’s one more aspect of this topic I just can’t leave out: how to store the scents that were either purchased … Continue reading →

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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Part 4 (The Art of Mixing, Scents for the Sexes and the Truth about Bay Rum!)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on May 24, 2021

We’re at Part 4 in this series –thanks for still reading!! I’m squeezing three different bits of this topic into today’s post. Each one could be a post and covered in so much more detail, but they sort of go … Continue reading →

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Smelling Sweet in the Regency: Part 3 (Making Sense of Making Scents)

by Gail Eastwood Posted on May 10, 2021

At the end of Part 2 in this series, we left our Regency heroine in her family’s still-room surrounded by the materials she has gathered for making a new supply of perfume. What has she harvested? Not apple blossoms, for … Continue reading →

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