Regency Suggestions

[georgiansuggestion]

write long pining letters to your lover instead of going to see them

[regencysuggestions]

Refuse to have children in order to spite your father.

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Pretend to court to secure your own private agendas.

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Anonymously publish a gossip column.

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Deprived of your usual walks, take a turn about the room instead.

[georgiansuggestion]

“The farther and wider that the discovery and knowledge of such an enormous evil, as the base and villainous treatment and slavery which the poor unfortunate Black People meet with, is spread and made known, the cry for justice, even virtue lifting up her voice, must rise the louder and higher, for the scale of equity and justice to be lifted up in their defence.”

Ottobah Cuogano, “Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery”, 1787

“After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'?”

Olaudah Equiano, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”, 1789

“In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

Phillis Wheatley, “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”, 1773

[georgiansuggestion]

marry a young man of the militia

[antigonick]

“I’m much impressed by the extreme badness of Byron’s poetry—”

— Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry from 1918, A Writer’s Diary: Being

[victoriansuggestion]

bemoan the conventions of society—ah, what trammels they are!

[georgiansuggestion]

lie recumbent due to your malaise

[regencysuggestions]

Drown yourself in a lake when the lady you love fancies another man.

[edwardiansuggestions]

write a play with some very pointed references to members of the fashionable elite

[firstdaughter-deactivated202103]

somebody come get her shes out on the moors

[regencysuggestions]

Destroy correspondence that contain too many forthright observations of friends and family.

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Adopt a child to act as your heir.

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Be a prolific letter writer.

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