Late Georgian and Regency Britain
Here you'll find snippets of research I've done into life in this era, stemming from my passion for Regency Romance novels, and text quoted directly from contemporary sources.
For ease of navigation, I have very loosely divided the content into two sections: primary sources; and original research/comment.
Primary sources | Original research based on primary sources, and historical romances of today |
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music:
- airs
- songs
- [[military and seafaring songs|military and seafaring]]
- [[drinking songs|drinking]]
- [[patriotic songs|patriotic]]
- [[songs about matters of the heart|matters of the heart]]
- [[rude and crude songs|rude and crude]]
- [[songs about town and country|town and country]]
- [[miscellaneous songs|miscellaneous]]
- all songs: [[list of all songs|list]], or [[all songs|all displayed on one page]]
love and marriage:
children:
Christmas season:
dancing:
- country dancing
- dancing etiquette
- country dances by year: [[country dances of 1769|1769]], [[country dances of 1780|1780]], [[country dances of 1787|1787]], [[country dances of 1789-a|1789-a]], [[country dances of 1789-b|1789-b]], [[country dances of 1792|1792]], [[country dances of 1793|1793]], [[country dances of 1797|1797]], [[country dances of 1799|1799]]
- all country dances in alphabetical order
law:
- From A Library of Parish Law
- [[parish law on husbands and wives|husbands and wives]]; [[parish law on adultery|adultery]]; [[parish law on alimony|alimony]]; [[parish law on bastards|bastards]]; [[parish law on bigamy|bigamy]]; [[parish law on infants|infants]]; [[parish law on rape|rape]]; [[parish law on women|women]]
- ecclesiastical law
- [[ecclesiastical law on marriage|marriage and separation]], [[ecclesiastical law on testaments|wills and testaments]]
the written word:
| common first names:
- names people were actually called
- [[names listed in glossaries|names]] found in contemporary guides and dictionaries
the rules of romance novels, as they are written today the great wedding night myth: or, the hymen is not up inside the vagina |