The time traveller's guide to regency Britain : a handbook for visitors to the years 1789-1830 / Ian Mortimer.
"This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic and political change. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions - where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion."-- from publisher.
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- ISBN: 1847924565
- Physical Description: xiii, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: London, England : The Bodley Head, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical notes (pages 371-400) and index (pages 403-416). |
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Subject: | Regency > England. Regency > Great Britain. |
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