tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post5142007815329768036..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: It’s your Natal Day, Regency StyleDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-17490561089728046922012-09-04T10:52:19.734-07:002012-09-04T10:52:19.734-07:00Great post, and very much enjoyed. Didn't the ...Great post, and very much enjoyed. Didn't the Regency Period start in the early 1800's? Marie Antoinette died Oct 1793 which I believe was prior to the Regency Period. And she never said, 'Let them eat cake.' It was the governor of the Bastille (before his head was hacked off by a mob in the Paris streets)'Let them eat straw.'Katherine Pymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15807278372998263951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-6726359194928316002012-09-03T10:44:13.875-07:002012-09-03T10:44:13.875-07:00Lovely post. Thank you.Lovely post. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-81794899527664860502012-09-03T10:11:22.299-07:002012-09-03T10:11:22.299-07:00Really enjoyed this post. I celebrated my birthday...Really enjoyed this post. I celebrated my birthday for 39 years. Stopped for the next 20. But now I'm in my sixties, and I'm celebrating again! Just like in your post. :)<br />Mary Simonsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03400923132711871703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-43427343007457511122012-09-03T06:37:23.447-07:002012-09-03T06:37:23.447-07:00I've often wondered if the lack of birthday ce...I've often wondered if the lack of birthday celebrations and even the acknowledgements of birthdays in the Georgian period has to do with the fearsome levels of child mortality. In 1750, some 48% of children born in London would not survive past the age of four. Which I've always thought must put a damper on things...<br /><br />Also, for example, many families farmed out their young for the first two or three years of their lives, as did the Austens. So whereas we are always very excited by a baby's first birthday--that baby 200 years ago was very often still living with the wet-nurse. <br /><br />Also, I wonder how much of a change came about through exposure to the Russians, who didn't celebrate birthday's but celebrated the Name-day, that is the Feast-day of the saint after whom one was named. M.M. Bennettshttp://www.mmbennetts.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-74004224390333615092012-09-01T14:21:24.845-07:002012-09-01T14:21:24.845-07:00Diane though would be correct in referring the wor...Diane though would be correct in referring the working classes of today, or poor, as the lower classes of the Georgian era. My last visit to the UK was in 2007 and the class system seemed to not be as prevalent as when I was there in 1973 or 1990. And certainly not in the periods I have researched for my writing. In times before the War (the second world war, not the Great War) the class system seems to be a part of life, and now here in the US, as the rich are richer, the middle class shrinking, perhaps we are reinventing the class system that we seldom have used a looking glass to see ourselves in.David W. Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171335840275083654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-43072375393163199572012-09-01T07:10:19.949-07:002012-09-01T07:10:19.949-07:00I don't like the term lower class, I prefer, a...I don't like the term lower class, I prefer, and hope you are not annoyed with my comment, working class people. By the way, I've read and enjoyed most of the classics. We had to study them in school, Chatham High School, then, British Guiana. Kharis MaceyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13497547774338546716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-60002450481542588992012-09-01T04:42:03.516-07:002012-09-01T04:42:03.516-07:00Interesting post, David. I researched birthdays fo...Interesting post, David. I researched birthdays for a Georgian novel and found they did have cake and candles, but always put an extra candle on the cake to keep the bad spirits away in case they are angered by someone celebrating their birthday. These were Cornish, lower class people.Diane Scott Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05724042672923318289noreply@blogger.com