{"id":3617,"date":"2026-02-22T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:32:26","slug":"top-blog-post-mourning-in-the-regency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/top-blog-post-mourning-in-the-regency\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Blog Post: Mourning in the Regency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier this month, Susan shared with us some sobering statistics about death during England\u2019s Regency period.\u00a0According to her May 4th post<\/a>, the average life expectancy in England in the early 1800s was about 40 years, and the infant mortality rate was around 15%.<\/p>\n

The people of the Regency had very specific \u201crules\u201d on how to deal with and display grief over losing a loved one. Though not as strict as the mourning customs that would later develop in the Victorian period,\u00a0Regency\u00a0mourning conventions were complex. Let\u2019s take a look at\u00a0\u00a0some of the key characteristics of mourning during the Regency.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/mourning-in-the-regency-period\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally posted 2013-12-30 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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Here’s one of our top posts: Earlier this month, Susan shared with us some sobering statistics about death during England\u2019s Regency period.\u00a0According to her May 4th post, the average life expectancy in England in the early 1800s was about 40 years, and the infant mortality rate was around 15%. The people of the Regency had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mourning","category-top-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}