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Have You Ever Waltzed? Would You? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper answers the Controversial Question for Herself if Not for all Womankind

Another week, another bulging mail bag for Mrs Finnegan, housekeeper at The Regency Town House. ALL enquiries, observations and ANGUISHED APPEALS for help get an answer. It may not be … Continue reading →

April 12, 2022 · 6 Comments

Does life seem Pointless? Do you Need to Escape to the Country? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper has the answer

Mrs Finnegan has discovered a pack of letters at the back of the KITCHEN dresser and cannot account for how they got there, but has now issued SWIFT replies to … Continue reading →

April 5, 2022 · 4 Comments

Men Who Stare Out of Windows are NOT to be Trusted says Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper

Mrs Finnegan, housekeeper of The Regency Town House, knows that there is a time to laugh and a time to cry and a TIME to prepare for a visitor. I WATCH from … Continue reading →

March 29, 2022 · 4 Comments

One Lost Earring and a Touch of Blackmail Create Trouble for Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper…and Then There’s the Twin Brothers

Mrs Finnegan is ALARMED that yet again her own problems outdo those of her readers in BOTH quantity and severity. She wishes she could return to the days when the … Continue reading →

March 22, 2022 · 4 Comments

Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Dispenses Advice and Finds a Diary Where Her Name is often Written LARGE

Mrs Finnegan is putting the tribulations of the last few weeks behind HER and throws herself into her work as Housekeeper at The Regency Town House only there appears to … Continue reading →

March 8, 2022 · 3 Comments

The Absence of Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper EXPLAINED and a Warning to Widows ISSUED

Mrs Finnegan craves your indulgence. Mrs Finnegan WOULD like to apologise. Mrs Finnegan BEGS you to remember that last week was the FIRST time an episode of her POPULAR chronicle … Continue reading →

March 1, 2022 · 6 Comments

Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Makes SHOCK ANNOUCEMENT after Advising on Fish and Young Love

In honour of St Valentine Mrs Finnegan has chosen a bouquet of LOVE LETTERS to share with her loyal READERS . For the time being at least, she remains the … Continue reading →

February 15, 2022 · 3 Comments

Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper Hates Raisins, Education for Young Ladies and a Knock on her Door Late at Night

Mrs Finnegan remains the loyal, reliable and hard-working Housekeeper at The Regency Town House and continues to GIVE pithy and pertinent advice to readers but…her mind is ELSEWHERE. NOW MY … Continue reading →

February 1, 2022 · 7 Comments

A Dear Departed Husband Returns from the Past. Or Does He? Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper is is By No Means Certain

Mrs Finnegan is not herself today. She is not sure she will EVER be herself again. Of course, she is still looking after The Regency Town House and its residents. … Continue reading →

January 25, 2022 · 8 Comments

A Knock on the Door Changes EVERYTHING for Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper

Mrs Finnegan, the hardworking housekeeper at THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE, was looking FORWARD to an uneventful year in leafy Brunswick Square until yesterday evening. A loud rat-a-tat on her door changed … Continue reading →

January 18, 2022 · 11 Comments

Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper has A New Mission for the New Year…

Expect no melodramas in The REGENCY TOWN HOUSE this year. Warmed by the SUNSHINE of smiles, Mrs Finnegan intends to run it with gentle words and the kind of careful … Continue reading →

January 11, 2022 · 5 Comments

When Your Suitor is One of the Last Great Romantics…Advice from Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper

Mrs Finnegan attends to a BULGING mail bag after the Christmas festivities but WITHOUT neglecting any of her duties at The Regency Town House MY HANDSOME fiancé Maurice is a … Continue reading →

January 4, 2022 · 8 Comments

5 things Mrs Finnegan did last year that she is really QUITE proud of…from the Chronicles of Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper

Mrs Finnegan – the acknowledged expert in life, love and LAUNDRY – looks back at the last 12 months at The Regency Town House And if the phrase celebrated housekeeper … Continue reading →

January 1, 2022 · 3 Comments

An Open Letter to My (Numerous) Gentle Readers from Brighton’s Regency Housekeeper

I trust you have had a pleasant yuletide? Yes? Plenty of sweetmeats and sweet wine? People toing and FROING? Plum pudding perhaps? Mince Pies? Very good. I know you will … Continue reading →

December 28, 2021 · 16 Comments

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