The Regency Quotes

“He had stopped using ‘prentice children, partly because they were too expensive to keep, and partly because of the Act of Parliament which had been passed to protect them, which was an annoyance to masters. ‘Free labour’ children were the responsibility of their parents, so Hobsbawn and other masters like him reasoned. And the parents would not have welcomed a ban on work for their younger ones. Children in the home worked at one thing or another from the time they could walk — that was the natural order of things. To keep a great, grown thing of seven or eight idle, when it could be earning a living, all for the sake of some damned Jacobin or moist-eyed reformer, was the sheerest nonsense. What”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Regency

“The former Mary Loveday was a thin woman in whose face any youthful beauty she may have possessed had been extinguished by years and unhappiness. There were unbecoming shadows around her eyes, two lines of discontent drew down her mouth corners, and her skin had the dry and unnourished look of a woman without a lover. Her”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Regency