Left-handed writing instruments (REGENCY LIFE DISCUSSION message #1053)

Left-handed writing instruments

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Posted by Linda on September 24, 1997 at 20:45:18:

In response to Sinister Cack-handedness, written by Caroline on September 24, 1997 at 15:55:51

] In Regency times, were people allowed to do things left-handed?

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] It is very difficult to do certain tasks lefthanded.Using a dipped pen and ink is perhaps the most obvious one.

I am not a lefty, though my husband and brother are, but using a dipped pen and ink is not necessarily difficult.

I took a calligraphy class a few years ago. There were a couple of left-handed students in the class. When they could find them, they bought pens that had an opposite slant to those of the rest of us. When they could not, they filed their calligraphy pens until the slant was correct for their left-handedness.

Since the quill pens of that era had to be cut and sharpened, I would expect that they would be cut to the comfort of the writer.

REPLIES:

Pen and ink Caroline 10:47:25 9/25/97 (6)
- The trials of a lefty Linda 13:37:24 9/25/97 (5)
  - Still more lefty persecution Ann H 09:38:48 9/30/97 (0)
  - lefties are adabtable Elissa 22:50:04 9/29/97 (0)
  - Sinister digression Kelley 17:48:47 9/25/97 (2)
    - more lefty digression ( only marginally off topic) Kathleen T 17:44:22 9/27/97 (0)
    - Ned Flanders Ann 20:48:38 9/25/97 (0)

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