Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #5: Sex and the Seventeenth Century
Conversation de dames en l’absence de leurs maris : le dîner by Abraham Bosse (1650) Women’s gossip about their sex lives in seventeenth-century England: Sex & The c17th City From the blog History of Love: Romantic relationships 1660–1837.
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #4: More about bras
Just when you think you know something someone comes along and turns it all upside down! There I was – along with pretty much everyone else who’d bothered to give the matter a second thought – all cocooned in my certainty that the early modern breast was corseted, and someone goes and digs up a […]
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #2: Before the Bra – the Radical Option
BLOG HOME As the nameless and disreputable-looking lady above and the Duchess of Monmouth below attest, the radical option was simply to go without! Find out more here.
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #1: Ladies Spat in the Theatre!
BLOG HOME On the 25th of January, 1661, Samuel Pepys ‘went to the Theatre, where I saw again “The Lost Lady,” which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be […]