Candice's Events Calendar

In this presentation, Candice will explore what a woman of the Regency, like Jane Austen, would have read to keep abreast of social and political news, fashion, literature, and theatre. The most popular magazines of the day — including the Lady’s Magazine, Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, La Belle Assemblée, the Lady’s Monthly Museum, the Gallery of Fashion, and Le Beau Monde — will be discussed in terms of packaging, circulation numbers, content (including prints), editorial direction, and more.

Copies of many of the magazines, both bound volumes and individual monthly issues in their original covers will be on hand for attendees to examine.

This event is free and open to the public, but you need to register to give the library a head count. Register here.

In this presentation, Candice will give a brief history of the valentine card during the Regency period, including puzzle purses, elaborate cut-paper valentines, elegantly painted love letters, printed designs with beautiful cameo-embossed borders, cobweb valentines, delicate paper lace, the earliest printed valentines, and more.

Attendees will also learn about a real Regency woman famous for her extraordinary hand-made valentines given out at her annual Valentine’s Day party.

This event is open to the public but will require registration. Check back closer to the event for registration info.