HistoryExtra
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link: https://www.historyextra.com
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items: The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know
items: Did women have good friendships in the Regency era?
items: Slavery and abolition, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
items: Regency culture, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
items: Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England
items: Royal enlightenment: the intellectual life of Queen Charlotte
items: Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
items: “The essence and spirit of Austen’s work are fundamentally changed”: a historian’s review of Persuasion

The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know
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date: 2024-08-09T15:13:06.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
description: From classical sites to society scandals, Lizzie Rogers answers listener questions on the 18th-century travellers who visited continental Europe
encoded: In the 18th century, countless British travellers set off to continental Europe in search of art, architecture... and a good time. But what were the must-see locations on the Grand Tour? How did people overcome the challenges of language, currency and uncomfortable mules? And what were the biggest scandals that shook fashionable Europe? In this 'everything you wanted to know' episode, Lizzie Rogers takes Ellie Cawthorne on a whistle-stop journey through the history of the Grand Tour. View Green Video on the source website

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Did women have good friendships in the Regency era?
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date: 2024-05-16T07:30:57.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
description: From sisterly love to confidantes during time of romantic woe, Lizzie Rogers illuminates the power of female friendship in the Regency era…
encoded: One of the most endearing parts of seeing the Regency on screen in period dramas like Bridgerton is not the romance, but the affectionate portrayal of female friendship. Not only did these friendships provide humour and counsel during the simultaneously arduous and thrilling process of finding a husband – or living without one – but they could also support a vision of life that did not solely emphasise being a wife and mother, offering encouragement to each other in interests that ranged from writing, to travel, to artistry and more. Romantic entanglements If anything, close female friends were the only confidantes an elite young woman could have during the process of finding a husband. As a teenager, Princess Charlotte of Wales, daughter of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, met a daughter of the future Viscount Keith, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone. Mercer, as Charlotte called her, was eight years her senior, and would become the isolated heir to the throne’s closest friend and confidante, exchanging countless letters across the Princess’s lifetime. Charlotte’s life was a lonely one, caught between her warring parents, and her friendship with Mercer provided solace through difficult times. Princess Charlotte spent much of her childhood and adolescence being ferried between the two households of her parents, who had hated each other since they first met. Even on Charlotte’s eighteenth birthday, she was forced to have two separate celebratory dinners at Carlton House and Blackheath, her father and mother’s homes respectively. Writing to and being with Mercer provided levity in the young Princess’s anxiety-inducing circumstances. On the podcast | Happily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen's era This only deepened as Charlotte began to fall in love with various men who crossed her path. The Princess had an interesting love life, which was shaped not only by her own romantic sensibilities – she openly identified with Austen’s Marianne Dashwood from Sense an…

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Slavery and abolition, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
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date: 2024-01-29T10:53:32.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: General prehistory
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
subject: Slavery
description: In her week four mini-lecture for the HistoryExtra Academy Regency course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the late 18th-century campaign to end the trade in enslaved people
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Regency culture, with Dr Lizzie Rogers
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date: 2024-01-15T15:23:51.000Z
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HEx Academy Regency Course
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
description: In the second mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the literature, art and architecture of the Regency period…
encoded: In the second mini-lecture of our HistoryExtra Academy Regency short course, Dr Lizzie Rogers explores the literature, art and architecture of the Regency period, and how the Prince Regent became an important patron of the era's culture. View Green Video on the source website Explore more content from week two of our Regency course: Becoming Jane Austen – reading time 4 mins The Romantics: everything you wanted to know – listening time 39 mins Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster – reading time 6 mins How to survive a Regency marriage – reading time 7 mins Visiting Brighton Royal Pavilion, the Prince Regent's decadent getaway – reading time 3 mins Dr Lizzie Rogers is a historian of the 18th and early 19th centuries

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Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England
type: item
date: 2024-01-14T21:50:57.000Z
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
subject: HistoryExtra Academy Regency Course
description: Dr Lizzie Rogers answers questions about the author and the social conventions of the world in which she lived and wrote
encoded: What do we know about Jane Austen's life? Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775, the seventh of eight children born to Reverend George Austen and Cassandra Leigh Austen. The family lived in Hampshire, where George was a cleric, and Austen spent the first two to three decades of her life there. Although she and her sister, Cassandra, went to school for a while, most of their education took place at home. After her father retired in 1800, Austen spent some time in Bath, but after her father’s death in 1805 until 1809, she, her mother, sister, and their friend Martha Lloyd were forced to live off the kindness of relatives, since they had little income of their own. In 1809, Austen’s brother, Edward, offered them a cottage in Chawton, Hampshire – now Jane Austen’s House Museum – and it was there that she edited a lot of her early writing, including early versions of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Austen started publishing her work in 1811, with Sense and Sensibility being her first novel, but all her works were published anonymously, initially as “By a Lady” and then as “the author of [previous book]”. Sadly, Jane’s health started to decline, and she died on 18 July 1817, in Winchester, at the age of 41; she was buried in Winchester Cathedral. What was the Austen family’s position in Regency society? Austen and her family were part of what is often referred to as the ‘pseudo- gentry’. While they had connections to wealthier families and established gentry, their own financial status was sometimes unstable. Austen’s brother Edward was adopted by a wealthy childless couple, the Knights, who owned the Chawton estate in Hampshire, and the two sisters didn’t have large marriage dowries, which were important during the Regency period. So, although the family wasn’t impoverished, money was occasionally a concern. But Austen enjoyed an artistically and culturally rich life, with access to her father’s extensive library of over 300 books, and she and her sibli…

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Royal enlightenment: the intellectual life of Queen Charlotte
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date: 2023-05-04T07:24:31.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
description: Charlotte was not only a steadfast queen to King George III and a devoted mother to their many children, but she used her position to advocate for female education and the advancement of research. Following the release of the prequel Netflix series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Lizzie Rogers explores the queen’s intellectual life…
encoded: At the centre of the ton in the world of Regency era drama Bridgerton is Queen Charlotte. Dripping with diamonds and crowned with beautiful, elaborate wigs, surrounded by an entourage of ladies-in-waiting carrying the most well-bred of Pomeranians, the queen is acerbic and witty, yet emotionally layered. The real Queen Charlotte was a woman of multiple facets. She employed her penchant for control both to direct the education of her children, and align herself with some of the biggest intellectual and cultural figures of the day – especially women. So celebrated was her position atop a visible circle of cultural and scholarly influence was celebrated so in 1781, almost two decades into her reign as Queen Consort, with this passage in The Ladies Poetical Magazine: Happy England, were each female mind, To science more, and less to pomp inclin’d, If parents, by example, prudence taught, and from their QUEEN the flame of virtue caught! Skill’d in each art that serves to polish life, Behold in HER a scientifick wife! The impact of the Enlightenment The 18th century saw a revolution in learning due to the intellectual movement of the Enlightenment. It was a time to encourage observation for oneself, the exchange of ideas through the world of letters and conversation, and, perhaps most pertinently, to enable the fashioning of a world of gentlemen and gentlewomen scholars. Women – thanks to, amongst various authors, John Locke’s assertion that the mind was a tabula rasa, or blank slate – were no longer seen as inherently inferior to the intellectual worlds of men. Though this hardly meant that women were suddenly accepted in all areas as intellectual equals, it did open up avenues of scholarly culture in which women were recognised participants and producers, and not just for pursuing accomplishments in a bid to impress a future husband. Richard Samuel’s 1776 group portrait The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, for instance, depicted nine women prominent in the worlds of …

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Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
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date: 2023-01-15T09:09:17.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: Georgian
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Everything you wanted to know about history (podcast series)
description: From her relationship with royals to Regency attitudes towards female writers, Lizzie Rogers answers listener questions on the world in which Jane Austen wrote
encoded: What was society’s attitude towards female writers in Regency England? How far did class affect the hopes of young couples looking to be wed? And did people really spend all day gossiping about grand fortunes, illustrious estates and ruinous affairs? Speaking with Lauren Good, Dr Lizzie Rogers answers listener questions on Jane Austen’s England – from the delights of a Regency ball to the flourishing ideal of marrying for love.

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“The essence and spirit of Austen’s work are fundamentally changed”: a historian’s review of Persuasion
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date: 2022-07-21T09:05:03.000Z
creator: Dr Lizzie Rogers
subject: Georgian
subject: Period
subject: TV interest
description: Netflix’s 2022 adaptation of Jane Austen’s final completed novel is out – and it’s not a traditional take on the Regency romance. Dr Lizzie Rogers, a historian specialising in the 18th century, explores an adaptation that subverts expectations
encoded: Audiences have waited in half agony, half hope for Netflix and director Carrie Cracknell’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel, Persuasion, which was published after the author’s death in 1817. It is one of the least adapted of Austen’s works, yet contains her most mature heroine, Anne Elliot, and arguably her most mature subject matter: that of lost love and confidence in one’s own choices. Who is persuaded in Persuasion? These two themes immediately dominate the opening scenes of Persuasion. Actor Dakota Johnson plays Anne Elliot, who declares that she was once almost married, but that she allowed herself to be persuaded into rejecting her lover due to his lack of rank and riches. Now, eight years later, Anne tells us – by breaking the fourth wall – that she is single and thriving, against a Bridget Jones-esque montage of drinking wine, crying in the bath and lying face down on her bed. Was Anne Elliot real? Anne Elliot was not someone Jane Austen knew, nor is she a representation of the author herself. Nonetheless there are remarkable parallels between Persuasion's heronine and one real-life figure ain Regency England... What is the plot of Persuasion? The story opens as Anne’s family – led by her vain father Walter Elliot (played by Richard E Grant) who believes his title gives him undue distinction and an excuse to overspend – must vacate the family seat at Kellynch Hall so that they might rent it out to pay their debts. Anne is biting in her commentary of her family, her voice emerging as a cross between the Anne Elliot of the novel and the satirical narration of Jane Austen herself. <img src="https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/7/2022/07/PERSUASIONUnit04842RC-eecbd68-e1658337526846.jpg" width="620" height="413" alt="Anne Elliott (Dakota Johnson) looks on her seated father Walter Elliot (Richard E Grant) and elder sister Elizabeth (Yolanda Kettle) in Netflix's 2022 adaptation of Persuasian" title="Anne Elliott (Dakota Johnson, standing…

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