Emily Brand
I am a writer & historian. One of those destitute country lasses who upped sticks & merrily travelled south on the promise of riches. Cough. Splutter.
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Prints Women Advice Books Marriage Love Men Courtship Marital Strife Sex Alcohol Newspapers 1790s The Single Life Newlyweds Family 1770s Seduction London Animals
Isabella Byron: the ale-drinking, toyboy-chasing 18th-century countess
12 April 2020
NEW VIDEO UP! Meet the irresistible Isabella Byron – ale drinker, poet, toyboy chaser & strategic swooner extraordinaire Travelled Europe with a conman Spent her 50s...
William, the ‘Wicked Lord’ Byron – actress abducter & cowardly killer?
10 April 2020
Dearest readers, A new video is UP! See below for a quick intro to the angry, dissipated career of William, 5th Lord Byron – known to history as ‘the Wicked Lord’...
Meet the Byrons! A scandalous 18th-century dynasty
9 April 2020
Lovely readers, I have been very quiet on here as late – partly because I am a shy & retiring wallflower but MAINLY because I have been writing my first big fat history book:...
The dangers of the C17th female imagination
21 February 2018
In the days before modern medicine – indeed, the days when sex was so fluid that girls could spontaneously turn into boys if they got too hot (more on that another time?) –...