Well, of course for ensuring the best gloss for one's hair, Bear Grease was apparently quite popular. Yup. Bear. Grease.
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In addition, communal baths such as the Hummums were available in London, and presumably similarly elsewhere.
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This is also an interesting link:
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Also, the book "Clean and Decent - The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet" by Lawrence White is worth a look. Basically, in the Regency, plumbing and fittings ranged from quite sophisticated in the more modern establishments, to rudimentary. So, it would depend on how Mr Bennet and Mr Darcy as house holders viewed baths and bathing. If they subscribed to the daily bath routine, then they would have had the means to install the equipment to achieve that (for example, boilers were available for that purpose from the very early 1800s according to the reference above, and baths and plumbing quite some time before that). Additionally, Pear's Soap had been around for about thirty years by the time that Lizzy and Darcy were abluting. So, it may well have been that some people would have bathed daily, while others, rather less frequently - Wright makes the point that there was no real time-line as such for society going from mediaeval grime to millennial obsession with cleanliness, and that at times of change the range of habits was quite wide.
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In addition, communal baths such as the Hummums were available in London, and presumably similarly elsewhere.
(Not allowed to post more than 2 hyperlinks, so guess you gotta google it)
This is also an interesting link:
[janeaustensworld.wordpress.com]
Also, the book "Clean and Decent - The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet" by Lawrence White is worth a look. Basically, in the Regency, plumbing and fittings ranged from quite sophisticated in the more modern establishments, to rudimentary. So, it would depend on how Mr Bennet and Mr Darcy as house holders viewed baths and bathing. If they subscribed to the daily bath routine, then they would have had the means to install the equipment to achieve that (for example, boilers were available for that purpose from the very early 1800s according to the reference above, and baths and plumbing quite some time before that). Additionally, Pear's Soap had been around for about thirty years by the time that Lizzy and Darcy were abluting. So, it may well have been that some people would have bathed daily, while others, rather less frequently - Wright makes the point that there was no real time-line as such for society going from mediaeval grime to millennial obsession with cleanliness, and that at times of change the range of habits was quite wide.