Absolutely! I’m mostly introverted, and the idea of having to be around large, noisy groups of people that I didn’t know nearly every evening would have sent me to Bedlam (the most notorious insane asylum in London) very quickly.
It also explains why Mr. Bennet didn't like Town/London. And the expense too of course! Five daughters plus Mrs. Bennet would have cost a fortune to support through the season.
@@teleriferchnyfain In college in the 90s in Boston, IHOP was the place we always went to after the clubs closed. Those pancakes really hit the spot after 6+ hours of dancing!
You left off a huge expense - a wealthy family Would be expected not only to offer at least weekly entertainments of their own but a ball as well. This easily doubled the expense of ‘doing the Season’.
💥 I'm 80, my Scottish Grandmother had her "Season" with Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Queen Elizabeth's Mother; requiring the stamina of a racehorse, an endless bout of balls, receptions, teas, "calls", a wardrobe and staff never to be seen again, grueling and tedious according to her.
@@Historidame It's interesting to compare the rather rude contemporary Regency cartoons and drawings with the later "chocolate box" paintings from late Victorian through WWI set in Regency times but much more sentimental.
The London Season and the extreeme wealth is still very much in existance. It has changed over time but it is real and there and an active part of society. Marriage is still a maneuvered thing and social standing, title and your portfolio do matter.
I would have hated that kind of lifestyle. I would prefer a middle of the raod not poor or rich life. As a introvert all that socialising would drive me utterly mental.
Jane Austen’s novels chronicle upper middle class life very well (she was a member of ‘the gentry - ie well-born & respectable while not ‘in trade’). A lot of socializing in her novels 🤗.
I’m reading a biography of Lady Caroline Lamb. I don’t know why people were so astonished that she entangled herself with Byron. She grew up in a household with her mother and aunt who had fourteen children between them, a third of whom were the product of affairs. The extended household also included her uncle’s mistress, who was his wife’s dear friend. I’m not even getting into the extracurricular activities of her in-laws.
I think it was her lack of decorum not so much her affairs that infuriated people. I remember reading about one of George lV's mistresses- I think the Countess of Jersey- who had 8 or 10 children and only 1 was her husband's child.
@@mtngrl5859 I think what enraged Society was that she wrote a thinly-veiled tell-all about them. Everyone in that set was fine with the behavior as long as it was kept under wraps. One woman, Jane Harley, had so many children by different lovers, her friends called her nursery “The Harleian Miscellany.”
The cost of a debutant’s ensamble for the season was so expensive and prohibitive, that many families could only afford to have their daughters out for 3 seasons. So the clock was ticking for finding a husband.
4:33 there's also the consideration of getting to the gardens with little public options for transport (mail coaches etc), access to horses and carriages to get you around added to the cost of attending places as much as entrance fees
Middle class people would just have walked. London was not really that big, and it only takes about 20 minutes to walk a mile. Much of what is now London, was rural or at best suburban 200 years ago.
Lady Caroline Lamb (who was 10 years younger than Jane Austen), was refused a voucher at Almack's when news of her extramarital affair with Lord Byron got out. And Lord Byron moved overseas, rather than continue to be ostracised in London.
I love going to gardens. When I lived in a bigger city, my favorite were the rose gardens in the Japanese gardens. I can't forget my favorite book The secret garden😅 Who knows maybe I'll write a book about garden one day the regency era sounds pretty interesting I usually only pay attention to Victorian and Edwardian times but this period definitely is catching my interest
can one really enjoy oneself if there's so much pressure to get married upward and knowing one is being scrutinized? if one fails to get married in the first year on the market was there a big disadvantage to partying the following year...not being new and one year older? was it rare or did a lot of women not get a husband in the first attempt... at what point does it become too embarrassing to be seen as trying at all (or was it accepted if being single wasn't too rare)
Regency "mating" season had little to do with love. It was all about families finding for their offspring a suitable partner, with the right social background and good financial expectations. Manners and behaviour were strictly codified, and the young girls chaperoned at all times, because if a girl was "compromised", her whole life prospects could be ruined.
It would coincide with the sitting of Parliament, so it would run from roughly November to June, with the spring months being particularly focused on the "marriage season" aspect.
@@Historidame In 1835 Parliament sat from 19/2/1835 to 10/9/35 . In 1836 from 4/2/36 to 20/8/36. In 1837, Parliament was dissolved early because of the death of William IV, the last time that happened because the rule was changed in 1867. So was the season early Spring to late Summer in those years? Parliament sat longer than the three months of the Season.
i really liked the costestimation. Then 100 pounds gives an idea that you couldnt afford the season ans MR Darcy with at least 10 000 punds a year for sure could affford it
We hear the comments in shows that, so and so has $5,000 or $10,000 a year. Can you do a video on where the monies of the rich came from. I have also noted that there were some sorts of investments that would net them a yearly income, what sorts of investments would net a steady income like that? Great video, thanks!
Land and rents. Some might put money into railroads or factories. But being "in trade" was not quite respectable. These were true capitalists, not the entrepreneurs we call capitalists today. They invested their money (or credit as landowners) in other idea men. Today the Duchy of Cornwall pays Prince William 21 million pounds annually as well as donating 100 million pounds to charities. To be fair, William doesn't have much to do with the Duchy, which was built up as a money machine by his father who invested his time, money, and ideas in several money earning ventures- like cookies and jams sold in supermarkets, an entire new town, Poundsbury, holiday rentals, and gardening supplies.
So essentially , these rich individuals led a perfectly vacuous life based on ritualised pre marital social exchanges intended to foster their wealth , even to the point of inbreeding and the overt use of women as financial pwns. And the meantime, so many wretched people struggled to survive. Despicable .
Look into the ritualistic history of bridal doweries and the incredibly common practices of essentially using their daughters and such publicized doweries to basically sell off their female offspring to the highest bidder --or to whom the most social benefits could be gained from the marriages... One of the worst cases I remember hearing about was on the YT channel Forgotten Lives of Lucrecia Borgia (sp?). That poor woman had the misfortune of growing up in a very well connected powerful family (her uncle was the Pope, and then her father succeeded him--in a time where the Pope's were FAR from chaste or celibate and incredibly debaucherous) she was dragged from one marriage to the next, and because her father was the Pope he was capable of annulment by either divine right or by political pressures and even murder! I highly recommend the video, it's an incredibly interesting look into the horrors of the marriage trade in European Renaissance.
@@jenniesochon9504 Information does not have to be sugar coated to be interesting. Social history is fascinating, if you accept that it also has its challenging sides.
Bridgerton is so much fun and such delightful escapist eye candy. But to enjoy it I have to pretend it takes place in an alternate dimension because it just *barely* has anything to do with history as it actually happened. 😂
I recommended it to my (now late) then 90 year old mother and told her, “You just have to suspend your knowledge of how it really was and just see the actors playing roles.” She loved it and said afterward, “He really was handsome, wasn’t he?” 90 years old - and still the life of the party. This video was quite fun, too.
Lol yes me too. It’s more of an eye-candy fantasy larp exercise than any slice of history. So many random choices. But I enjoyed a lot of the characters, and some of the actors just ate it up. Fun froth
The nobility typically didn't work. Most had generational wealth that they invested or got money by being landlords. Some people from noble families that had no title of their own might have been in the army or clergy, but most didn't have jobs.
@@ilindseymurphy The same place all generational wealth comes from, I imagine. Colonialism, slavery, owning valuable assets. If you'd want to know exact details you'd probably have to research a noble family's lineage and trace it down their ancestry.
A landed gentleman wouldn't have a profession. His job was overseeing his estate and managing it for the next generation. His income would come from rents, investments, and whatever natural resources were on the land. A gentleman's firstborn son would be his heir, and therefore wouldn't have a profession either. The other younger sons who would not inherit much money might choose a fashionable profession such as the law, the church, the army, or the navy.
I wish all of these traditions would come back!! The dating scene or ie lack of one in moderns times is disgusting!!! The men now-a-days need to re-learn their manners the young men out their are disgusting all they want to do is get laded. We have fallen so far as society, these people new what they were doing!!!!!
Adjustments for inflation is not the right way to find current value. You need to take comparable purchase power. E.g. 2500 pounds wpould not rent a house these days.
@Historidame, thanks for coming back. That's fair enough, I have never heardbit called Ran-a-la. If you found both, then I suppose it's an option. Enjoyed the video..
My question is, when did these ppl work? I mean I figure the women don’t but the men surely have to work to be so rich. Im sure some of them live off family money but wouldn’t they still have some kind of career?
If you were a lord or a lord's heir you didn't work-- full-stop. Your job was being a landlord and owning assets that were invested. (also slavery was still around) If you were a second or third son, you would receive an allowance but also might have had a career, usually as a member of the clergy, military, or a lawyer.
@@Historidame Slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1834, although the slaves were not freed. Children of slaves born after 1834 were free. Mind you , there were a lot of similarities to Juneteenth, in that many of the enslaved were never told they were free.
@@adajanetta1 Since she is speaking about the Regency era, pre-1834 falls well within that and plenty of British gentry had assets overseas (plantations and slaves) helping to bolster their wealth.
😅 I'm sorry what?!?!?.......she sounds NOTHING like Kaz Rowe....they don't even have the same colloquial accents or even remotely similar speech patterns..... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?..... 😂😂😂😂😂 Maybe you need some new speakers for your phone 🤳🏽.....
you are using the term "gentry" which is a wealthy landed but not aristocratic family. were they the ones "on the make" hoping to become a "lady _______" or are the nobles looking to marry into a rich capitalist family? its all fascinating.
Most marriages relied on a mutual trade of wealth and status. Those without title might want to marry into a family with title, while others might try to just go after wealth and connections. Of course, I cannot speak for every instance, this is just a general overview.
I have been to a few lovely botanical gardens, actually! They are one of my favourite places to go :) But they didn't include things like hot air balloons, theater shows, mechanical displays etc. The comparison is not trying to say that it is something like Six Flags, but rather that paying admission to private grounds with various attractions and a goal of leisure is a similar idea when compared to that time period.
Whether you are a fan of the show/books or not, you can't deny that its cultural impact has certainly gotten a lot more people interested in Regency history.
It's fun. Well acted and a good story. Historically? Oh well. I can read Ursula K LeGuin without having to believe in faster than light interstellar travel, so I can with the same suspension of disbelief watch Bridgerton and pretend the servants didn't know what Penelope was up to within two months of the first issue of Lady Whistledown.
I would be a full on narcissist if I was wealthy, caucasian and living in London around this era in history. The life of women must have been just awful - money or no money.
Now I understand why Mr. Darcy acted like that at the dance... This all sounds like an introvert's worst nightmare haha
Exactly! 🤣🤣
Yes!
But he didn’t have to be rude to Elizabeth. Admit it, he was kind of an ass.
Absolutely! I’m mostly introverted, and the idea of having to be around large, noisy groups of people that I didn’t know nearly every evening would have sent me to Bedlam (the most notorious insane asylum in London) very quickly.
It also explains why Mr. Bennet didn't like Town/London. And the expense too of course! Five daughters plus Mrs. Bennet would have cost a fortune to support through the season.
I would be very much delighted if nightclubs nowdays would offer sit down dinners and 5am breakfast.
5am breakfast sounds fantastic lol
Back in the 70s we just went to IHop or Denny’s 😂
strip clubs have breakfast buffets sometimes lol
@@teleriferchnyfain In college in the 90s in Boston, IHOP was the place we always went to after the clubs closed. Those pancakes really hit the spot after 6+ hours of dancing!
Being rich and not working has always been my career goal.😅
Oh same
Same here
Exactly
You left off a huge expense - a wealthy family Would be expected not only to offer at least weekly entertainments of their own but a ball as well. This easily doubled the expense of ‘doing the Season’.
Great point! I didn't think about the cost of hosting parties yourself.
This is an issue in the novel "The Way We Live Now".
It didn’t double the expense. They WERE the expense
I never realized it was a special season when parliament was in session. Thank you.
This was very informative. I can't believe how lavish their lives were and without working! They truly lived in a bubble didn't they?
Still do 😂
They built the bubble
Why do you think they got their heads lopped off in France?
💥 I'm 80, my Scottish Grandmother had her "Season" with Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Queen Elizabeth's Mother; requiring the stamina of a racehorse, an endless bout of balls, receptions, teas, "calls", a wardrobe and staff never to be seen again, grueling and tedious according to her.
Love your choice of illustrations to include with the narration! This was a delightful watch.
Thank you so much! :)
I love to draw and found the illustrations wonderful as well!
@@Historidame It's interesting to compare the rather rude contemporary Regency cartoons and drawings with the later "chocolate box" paintings from late Victorian through WWI set in Regency times but much more sentimental.
The London Season and the extreeme wealth is still very much in existance. It has changed over time but it is real and there and an active part of society. Marriage is still a maneuvered thing and social standing, title and your portfolio do matter.
I would have hated that kind of lifestyle. I would prefer a middle of the raod not poor or rich life. As a introvert all that socialising would drive me utterly mental.
Jane Austen’s novels chronicle upper middle class life very well (she was a member of ‘the gentry - ie well-born & respectable while not ‘in trade’). A lot of socializing in her novels 🤗.
Oh Mr Bennett!
Rich people didn’t have much to do back then lol this was their entertainment and social media.
Me too
Yeah, but nobody writes books about the Victorian middle class.
I really appreciate all the beautiful paintings and illustrations you included.
Thank you! :)
I might pay someone a morning call next week, followed by an afternoon visit to the Art Gallery.😊, finishing with an evening at the ballet.
Ah, lovely lovely
I’m reading a biography of Lady Caroline Lamb. I don’t know why people were so astonished that she entangled herself with Byron. She grew up in a household with her mother and aunt who had fourteen children between them, a third of whom were the product of affairs. The extended household also included her uncle’s mistress, who was his wife’s dear friend. I’m not even getting into the extracurricular activities of her in-laws.
😂 never knew.
I think it was her lack of decorum not so much her affairs that infuriated people. I remember reading about one of George lV's mistresses- I think the Countess of Jersey- who had 8 or 10 children and only 1 was her husband's child.
@@mtngrl5859 I think what enraged Society was that she wrote a thinly-veiled tell-all about them. Everyone in that set was fine with the behavior as long as it was kept under wraps. One woman, Jane Harley, had so many children by different lovers, her friends called her nursery “The Harleian Miscellany.”
The cost of a debutant’s ensamble for the season was so expensive and prohibitive, that many families could only afford to have their daughters out for 3 seasons. So the clock was ticking for finding a husband.
4:33 there's also the consideration of getting to the gardens with little public options for transport (mail coaches etc), access to horses and carriages to get you around added to the cost of attending places as much as entrance fees
Middle class people would just have walked. London was not really that big, and it only takes about 20 minutes to walk a mile. Much of what is now London, was rural or at best suburban 200 years ago.
At this level you weren’t looking for public transit.
Hackney cabs & chairs to rent were a thing.
Thank you for these wonderful glimpses into the past
I'm glad you enjoyed!
Lady Caroline Lamb (who was 10 years younger than Jane Austen), was refused a voucher at Almack's when news of her extramarital affair with Lord Byron got out. And Lord Byron moved overseas, rather than continue to be ostracised in London.
Thanks for the fun fact!
He was ostracized due to rumors of his affair with his half-sister, not for the Lady Caroline Lamb scandal.
I really enjoyed the visuals! Good choices!
Thank you!
I love going to gardens. When I lived in a bigger city, my favorite were the rose gardens in the Japanese gardens.
I can't forget my favorite book The secret garden😅
Who knows maybe I'll write a book about garden one day the regency era sounds pretty interesting I usually only pay attention to Victorian and Edwardian times but this period definitely is catching my interest
Those bros in their regency jeggings, LOL.
All the more reason to build up those thigh and calve muscles with activities like horse riding-- or padding. 🙂
I do love the Regency Era
If you think this is a fake a$$ time now... Boyyyyy they were doing it up back then.
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Very well done. I’ve had occasion to use information like this in my writing. Well researched and informative. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Looking good is part luck, part effort and part skill. Looking glamorous costs money.
Thank you this was very informative.
This video helped me with a lot of ideas for a novel im trying to plot, thank u!
Glad to hear it!
Excellent, as always. Thanks for a very interesting video.
Thank you for watching and commenting! :)
I actually want this so bad but not for getting married since I’m already married, just for having social things to go to where I live.
Oh that's a big mood. I would love some social events to go to regularly.
Enjoying your videos ❤
Thank you!
can one really enjoy oneself if there's so much pressure to get married upward and knowing one is being scrutinized? if one fails to get married in the first year on the market was there a big disadvantage to partying the following year...not being new and one year older? was it rare or did a lot of women not get a husband in the first attempt... at what point does it become too embarrassing to be seen as trying at all (or was it accepted if being single wasn't too rare)
It's like a novel come to life! I wouldn't want to live it, but fun to read. Thank you for your talent in providing this for us!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)
You have a beautiful family Linna. I enjoy your videos so much!
Very enjoyable and very well done.
Thank you!
Feels like, we need to get back to some of these
I think moral parties would be fantastic! We lost a lot of socialization with the Internet.
I'm so early lol, I love your videos ❤
Thank you!
Thank you, I always wondered what that was all about.
It sounds so stressfull 😶
Time stamps of the video
0:44: part one
2:58: part two
5:44: part three
8:55: part four
11:28: part five
i always love your videos :)
Thank you!
Thank you for this informative video! Subscribed.
Love the videos ❤
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Thank you!
I live next to Vauxhall pleasure garden ( Vocxholl )
It sounds exhausting ! When did they sleep ? An introvert’s nightmare.
Try the party's toilette... maybe the introverts were in there 😂
I thought only animals have mating/finding couples season and impress each other like there's no choice
Regency "mating" season had little to do with love. It was all about families finding for their offspring a suitable partner, with the right social background and good financial expectations. Manners and behaviour were strictly codified, and the young girls chaperoned at all times, because if a girl was "compromised", her whole life prospects could be ruined.
Humans are animals too. Apes, to be precise. 🤷🏻♀️
Nightclubs nowadays can be similar overall behaviour in terms of mating, though a lot more vulgar. We have nothing to be patronising about.
We are definitely doing the mammal out here
I bet it was still cheaper than Disney world today.
What months constituted "The Season"?
It would coincide with the sitting of Parliament, so it would run from roughly November to June, with the spring months being particularly focused on the "marriage season" aspect.
@@Historidame In 1835 Parliament sat from 19/2/1835 to 10/9/35 . In 1836 from 4/2/36 to 20/8/36. In 1837, Parliament was dissolved early because of the death of William IV, the last time that happened because the rule was changed in 1867.
So was the season early Spring to late Summer in those years? Parliament sat longer than the three months of the Season.
@@adajanetta1 Cool! Thanks for providing some details. :)
Sounds exhausting
Oh dear, my introvertedness could never
🏳️🌈It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.🏳️🌈
i really liked the costestimation. Then 100 pounds gives an idea that you couldnt afford the season ans MR Darcy with at least 10 000 punds a year for sure could affford it
Read a very well researched lesbian romance set around "The Season".
They spent most their time at balls drinking.
What book was it? 👀
@@Historidame Don't Want You Like A Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
Wednesdays at Almack's. Not Almack's, you had to have vouchers
now i understand why mr collins was bragging about lady catherine having multiple carriages 13:18
Don’t forget the men also had to be dressed appropriately, this was the age of Beau Brummell.
Ah, Lord Brainley! What news do you bring of the London season?
EARLY 😍
We hear the comments in shows that, so and so has $5,000 or $10,000 a year. Can you do a video on where the monies of the rich came from. I have also noted that there were some sorts of investments that would net them a yearly income, what sorts of investments would net a steady income like that?
Great video, thanks!
Land and rents. Some might put money into railroads or factories. But being "in trade" was not quite respectable.
These were true capitalists, not the entrepreneurs we call capitalists today. They invested their money (or credit as landowners) in other idea men.
Today the Duchy of Cornwall pays Prince William 21 million pounds annually as well as donating 100 million pounds to charities.
To be fair, William doesn't have much to do with the Duchy, which was built up as a money machine by his father who invested his time, money, and ideas in several money earning ventures- like cookies and jams sold in supermarkets, an entire new town, Poundsbury, holiday rentals, and gardening supplies.
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So essentially , these rich individuals led a perfectly vacuous life based on ritualised pre marital social exchanges intended to foster their wealth , even to the point of inbreeding and the overt use of women as financial pwns. And the meantime, so many wretched people struggled to survive. Despicable .
Look into the ritualistic history of bridal doweries and the incredibly common practices of essentially using their daughters and such publicized doweries to basically sell off their female offspring to the highest bidder --or to whom the most social benefits could be gained from the marriages... One of the worst cases I remember hearing about was on the YT channel Forgotten Lives of Lucrecia Borgia (sp?). That poor woman had the misfortune of growing up in a very well connected powerful family (her uncle was the Pope, and then her father succeeded him--in a time where the Pope's were FAR from chaste or celibate and incredibly debaucherous) she was dragged from one marriage to the next, and because her father was the Pope he was capable of annulment by either divine right or by political pressures and even murder!
I highly recommend the video, it's an incredibly interesting look into the horrors of the marriage trade in European Renaissance.
In short, just like every other period in human history.
Well, you just took all the fun out of it.
@@jenniesochon9504 Information does not have to be sugar coated to be interesting. Social history is fascinating, if you accept that it also has its challenging sides.
Very interesting with great illustrations. Please speak a little slower. Thanks.
Bridgerton is so much fun and such delightful escapist eye candy. But to enjoy it I have to pretend it takes place in an alternate dimension because it just *barely* has anything to do with history as it actually happened. 😂
Well in a way, it kind of is an alternate dimension with how they worked their colourblind casting into the lore.
@@Historidame Yes! I love that! In this Parallel Time Regency Universe it works gorgeously ❣️✌🏽
I recommended it to my (now late) then 90 year old mother and told her, “You just have to suspend your knowledge of how it really was and just see the actors playing roles.” She loved it and said afterward, “He really was handsome, wasn’t he?” 90 years old - and still the life of the party. This video was quite fun, too.
Lol yes me too. It’s more of an eye-candy fantasy larp exercise than any slice of history. So many random choices. But I enjoyed a lot of the characters, and some of the actors just ate it up. Fun froth
It most certainly IS alternative history.
What were their jobs? What was everyone’s daily life like?
The nobility typically didn't work. Most had generational wealth that they invested or got money by being landlords. Some people from noble families that had no title of their own might have been in the army or clergy, but most didn't have jobs.
@@Historidame got it but where did the money come from?
@@ilindseymurphy The same place all generational wealth comes from, I imagine. Colonialism, slavery, owning valuable assets. If you'd want to know exact details you'd probably have to research a noble family's lineage and trace it down their ancestry.
A landed gentleman wouldn't have a profession. His job was overseeing his estate and managing it for the next generation. His income would come from rents, investments, and whatever natural resources were on the land. A gentleman's firstborn son would be his heir, and therefore wouldn't have a profession either. The other younger sons who would not inherit much money might choose a fashionable profession such as the law, the church, the army, or the navy.
@@Rebecca_English And the younger siblings might have allowances from the eldest, as well as inheritances from godparents and the like.
I wish all of these traditions would come back!! The dating scene or ie lack of one in moderns times is disgusting!!! The men now-a-days need to re-learn their manners the young men out their are disgusting all they want to do is get laded. We have fallen so far as society, these people new what they were doing!!!!!
it was great for the wealthy and horrible for the poor so no i love this time i live in
No thanks. There was close to zero choice for women about how to live their life, and not a lot of choice for men either
Adjustments for inflation is not the right way to find current value. You need to take comparable purchase power. E.g. 2500 pounds wpould not rent a house these days.
It's Ran-lee gardens, not Ran-a-la.
Sorry about that, I actually did look up the pronunciation, and found both, so I wasn't sure which one to use.
@Historidame, thanks for coming back. That's fair enough, I have never heardbit called Ran-a-la. If you found both, then I suppose it's an option. Enjoyed the video..
My question is, when did these ppl work? I mean I figure the women don’t but the men surely have to work to be so rich. Im sure some of them live off family money but wouldn’t they still have some kind of career?
If you were a lord or a lord's heir you didn't work-- full-stop. Your job was being a landlord and owning assets that were invested. (also slavery was still around) If you were a second or third son, you would receive an allowance but also might have had a career, usually as a member of the clergy, military, or a lawyer.
@@Historidame Slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1834, although the slaves were not freed. Children of slaves born after 1834 were free.
Mind you , there were a lot of similarities to Juneteenth, in that many of the enslaved were never told they were free.
@@adajanetta1 Since she is speaking about the Regency era, pre-1834 falls well within that and plenty of British gentry had assets overseas (plantations and slaves) helping to bolster their wealth.
Sound very exhausting to me.
This sounds absolutely miserable.
Party of class but no flushing toilet
That's so... wasteful.
What is wrong with being a strong and independent woman ❤❤😂😂🎉🎉
Very interesting vid! But I would've rather just meet a nice young man at church...
Well that would have still been possible back then too ;)
Are you also Kaz Rowe? Your voice sounds a lot like hers.
😅 I'm sorry what?!?!?.......she sounds NOTHING like Kaz Rowe....they don't even have the same colloquial accents or even remotely similar speech patterns..... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?.....
😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe you need some new speakers for your phone 🤳🏽.....
Nope, I have no idea who that is. 😅
Maryhildreth, I thought it was her too. But, now that I found out she's not her, I can hear the difference.
you are using the term "gentry" which is a wealthy landed but not aristocratic family. were they the ones "on the make" hoping to become a "lady _______" or are the nobles looking to marry into a rich capitalist family? its all fascinating.
Most marriages relied on a mutual trade of wealth and status. Those without title might want to marry into a family with title, while others might try to just go after wealth and connections. Of course, I cannot speak for every instance, this is just a general overview.
How awful that your future depended on which "class" you were born. Those people were wealthy snobs.😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😡😠😠
For the most part it still does 🤷🏼♀️
Narrator has never been to a Botanical Garden if they’re comparing pleasure gardens to an Amusement Park 😂
I have been to a few lovely botanical gardens, actually! They are one of my favourite places to go :) But they didn't include things like hot air balloons, theater shows, mechanical displays etc. The comparison is not trying to say that it is something like Six Flags, but rather that paying admission to private grounds with various attractions and a goal of leisure is a similar idea when compared to that time period.
Women should be embarrassed for liking bridgerton
Cream of the crop or cream of the crap?
I was okay until you mentioned “Bridgerton”. It’s such a piece of total crap…
Whether you are a fan of the show/books or not, you can't deny that its cultural impact has certainly gotten a lot more people interested in Regency history.
It's fun. Well acted and a good story. Historically? Oh well. I can read Ursula K LeGuin without having to believe in faster than light interstellar travel, so I can with the same suspension of disbelief watch Bridgerton and pretend the servants didn't know what Penelope was up to within two months of the first issue of Lady Whistledown.
Can you remember that women had hairy armpits and legs?? Black, grey or brown teeth? Oily, frizzy hair??
I would be a full on narcissist if I was wealthy, caucasian and living in London around this era in history. The life of women must have been just awful - money or no money.