regency period

Regency Romance versus Historical Romance

by Keira 05.07.2011

What is regency romance and how does it differ from historical romance? You may well recognize Jane Austen as a regency romance writer. She is best known for works such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. So what makes an authentic regency romance? Well if you look at Pride and Prejudice you can [...]

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Review: Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 01.31.2011

The second Georgette Heyer novel that I read was a lot easier to get through. It helped that there was few if any references to my lord or my lady in the narrative. The diction used is as exacting and up there as Devil’s Cub. This novel was longer but I read it in less [...]

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Regency: Affairs of the Heart

by Guest Blogger 10.14.2010

by Amelia Grey, guest blogger and author of A Marquis to Marry Do you think love was different between now and during the Regency? The easy answer to this for me is an unequivocal, “no.”  But that said, I do believe most of the trappings that lead to and surrounded love were different than from [...]

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Regency Rakes and Their All Too Often Naughtiest Traits

by Sandra Scholes 09.18.2010

by Sandra Scholes, guest blogger Rakes are numerous in Regency romance novels, as a peek through a Mills and Boon or Jane Austen paperback will tell enough about a supposed gentleman’s personality, but what are the man’s traits that separate men in fiction from the rakish rogues in popular historical novels today? What makes a [...]

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Regency: Love, Romance, and Passion!

by Guest Blogger 09.08.2010

by Rebecca Ann Collins, guest blogger and author of My Cousin Caroline Love, Romance and Passion are the essential ingredients of many modern novels set in the Regency period—a  mere 20 year time span in early 19th century  England.  It may lead one to conclude that the literary output of the period must have been [...]

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