This book was my chance to find out! I've had lots of fun giving talks around the world on Georgette Heyer and the Regency, and am a passionate advocate for women writers, books and reading. I've read and loved Jane Austen for years and have always wondered how she'd fare in our world. My new novel, Jane Austen's Ghost will be published in October 2019 by Overlord Publishing. My first novel, ' The Cinderella Moment', was published by Penguin Australia in 2013 and its sequel, ' The Rapunzel Dilemma' in 2014. While living overseas I studied as an off-campus student with Deakin University and achieved my BA (Hons) while raising my three children.Īfter graduating with a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne, my first two books: ' Georgette Heyer's Regency World' and ' Georgette Heyer' (the biography) published in both the UK and the USA. (Aug.I was born in Melbourne, Australia, but have lived and worked in Papua New Guinea and the Middle East and travelled to more than thirty countries. Yet no fan of the period or writer of stories set in the era should be without this guide to the Regency period. Kloester's prose is not as glittering as the period she covers, and it's disappointing that the many illustrations are modern "adaptations" of period originals. Small maps of fashionable areas of London and the resort towns of Brighton and Bath accompany extensive coverage of the popular shops, hotels, taverns, and residential neighborhoods. Charts and appendixes list Regency slang, periodicals, and the hierarchy of household servants. Drawing on Heyer's own extensive research notes, Kloester gives a thorough overview of the period, from politics to food production to the pastimes of the ton.
With chapters addressing everything from the inside-out details of period costume to the different methods of harnessing horses to carriages and the proper method of table service, even experts on Regency society will find invaluable new information, while the casual reader will find useful context and an answer for nearly every imaginable question about Regency society. Meticulously researched yet splendidly entertaining, Kloester's comprehensive guide to the world of upper-class Regency England is a must-have for both Heyer readers and those generally interested in the society and customs of the early 19th-century.
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