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A look at a Regency Ball. From film adaptations of period literature. However, there are many things one can learn from a visual interpretation of the written page. To attend a period ball, please visit.
A look at a Regency Ball. From film adaptations of period literature. However, there are many things one can learn from a visual interpretation of the written page. To attend a period ball, please visit.
Please scroll down to the topic of interest. Displays a well researched, well executed plot line and character development as well as keen insight into the manners and etiquette of the period.
Although wine and other alcoholic beverages were very common in the Regency Period, due to the poor quality and often contaminated water sources, drunkenness was only reserved and excused amongst gentlemen. Ladies were never to be drunk, lest they be shunned from society for their inexcusable behaviour.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Daniel Pool talks about the Master of Ceremonies, whose responsibility was to know the background of the young men and women present, and then introduce them so they could dance, as it was improper for men and women of the day to introduce themselves. The Master of ceremonies also made sure that the attendees maintained their propriety and proper etiquette.