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Love And Marriage In The Age Of Jane Austen, by Rory Muir

Fascinating, instructive and entertaining.

I was not completely sure, when asked to review this book, whether 300 pages or so on Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen would be my sort of thing. I am interested in Georgian and Regency History but that interest tends more towards the political and the...

Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen

What was the reality of marriage once the sound of the church bells had died away?

Rory Muir

Regency England – roughly speaking from the 1780s to the 1820s – has become identified as an age of elegance, romance and glamour. The immense success of the TV and film adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels and imitations such as Bridgerton, building on ideas already...