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A London Season features in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and is often a key plot device in Regency romance novels. [citation needed] The 1927 novel Lucia in London by E. F. Benson is set during the London season in the 1920s. The 1938 novel Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh is set during the London season.
British women of the Regency era (1811-1820 or, more broadly, 1795-1837). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A. Jane Austen (8 C, 39 P)
The Colonial Dames of America (CDA) is an American organization comprising women who descend from one or more ancestors who lived in British North America between 1607 and 1775, and who aided the colonies in public office, in military service, or in another acceptable capacity.
The Regency-set books written by authors such as Christina Dodd, Eloisa James, and Amanda Quick are generally considered to be Regency Historical works. Regency romances which may include more social realism, or, conversely, anachronistically modern characterization, might be classed by some as "Regency Historical", signifying that their general setting is in Regency England, but the plot ...
The book, set in Regency England, received numerous awards, and was named to the 2010 Lone Star Reading List of the Texas Library Association. [ 6 ] After The Season , MacLean wrote her first adult romance novel, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake , a Regency historical.
Officially, the Regency began on 5 February 1811 and ended on 29 January 1820 but the "Regency era", as such, is generally perceived to have been much longer. The term is commonly, though loosely, applied to the period from c. 1795 until the accession of Queen Victoria on 20 June 1837. [ 7 ]
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A marriage based on love was rarely an option for most women in the British Regency, as securing a steady and sufficient income was the first consideration for both the woman and her family. This is most likely why this period yielded so many examples of literary romance: it gave many women the opportunity to live vicariously through the novel ...