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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)
Carla Sue Kelly (born 1947) is an American writer in the Regency romance genre. She is the author of over forty books and short stories. She is the author of over forty books and short stories. Her books are what romance readers call "keepers," i.e. books they keep in their private collections, and accordingly they can be hard to find.
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 ton in Regency England is depicted in many of the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer, and in Julia Quinn's 2000–2006 Bridgerton novel series. The latter has been adapted as a streaming television series Bridgerton , the first season of which aired on Netflix in 2020.
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.
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.