This week we're traveling back to Regency England with Sense and Sensibility! Join us for a discussion of pineapples, the Bill and Ted Test, Regency medicine, the Porcupine newspaper, the late great Alan Rickman, and more!

Sources: 

Regency Doctors:

Brittany Pladek, "A Variety of Tastes: The Lancet in the Early-Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 85, 4 (2011) "The Physician in the 19th Century," Jane Austen's World, available at https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/the-physician-in-the-19th-century/ MJD Roberts, "The Politics of Professionalization: MPs, Medical Men, and the 1858 Medical Act," Medical History 53, 1 (2009) Michael Ashley Stein et al, "Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions," American Journal of Legal History 55, 2 (2015)

Regency Hair and the Bill and Ted Test:

Rachelle Hampton, "Does Your Favorite Period Drama Pass the Bill and Ted Test?" Slate, available at https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/regency-movie-costumes-bill-and-ted-test.html "Pictorial History of Regency Hairstyles," Jane Austen's World, available at https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/tag/regency-hairstyle/

The Porcupine:

"Porcupine's Gazette" George Washington's Mount Vernon https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/porcupine-s-gazette/ "London Porcupine and Antigallican Monitor Newspaper Archives October 26, 1801 Page 1" https://newspaperarchive.com/london-porcupine-and-antigallican-monitor-oct-26-1801-p-1/ James Madison, The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (1986). Google Books snippet view. Edward Smith, William Cobbett: A Biography In Two Volumes, Vol. 1 London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. Gutenberg E-book. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49844/49844-h/49844-h.htm#CHAPTER_XI Ian Dyck, "Cobbett, William (1763-1835)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (September 2004). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5734

Pineapples:

Bethan Bell, "The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple," BBC News (2 August 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53432877 Ruth Levitt, "'A Noble Present of Fruit': A Transatlantic History of Pineapple Cultivation," Garden History 42:1 (Summer 2014): 106-119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636289 Christopher J. Natali, "Was Northanger Abbey's General Tilney Worth His Weight in Pineapples?" Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 40:1 (2019). Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 March 2021), July 1807, trial of JOHN GODDING, alias GODWYN (t18070701-60).

John Godding, https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18070701-60-defend643

Film Background:

Sense and Sensibility, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114388/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 "10 Confusing Movie End Credits Finally Explained," WhatCulture.com, available at https://whatculture.com/film/10-confusing-movie-end-credits-finally-explained?page=9