Update 14 August: you can now also pre-order the book direct from Pen and Sword Books.
Darcy spurns Elizabeth at the ball, Pride and Prejudice. |
Immerse yourself in
the vanished world inhabited by Austen’s contemporaries. Packed with anecdotes, the book is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper
classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen’s birth, to the coronation of
George IV in 1820. My book conjures up all aspects of daily life
within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters,
novels, travel literature and archives.
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Were all unmarried affluent men really 'in want
of a wife'?
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Where would a young lady seek adventures?
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Would ‘taking the waters’ at Bath and other spas
kill or cure you?
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Was Lizzy Bennet bitten by bed-bugs while travelling?
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What would you wear to a country ball, or a
dance at Almack’s?
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Would Mr Darcy have worn a corset?
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What hidden horrors lurked in elegant Regency
houses?
Put on your
dancing gloves and embrace a lost era of corsets and courtship!
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