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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.
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 ]
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
'Bridgerton' Season 2 introduces Kate and Edwina Sharma, women of Indian descent on the London marriage market. Here's the real history behind them.
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]