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I write novels set during the Regency period: Jane Austen-inspired novels, and Regency romances. The time period 1800-1820 has always been a period that fascinated me, ever since I first read the novels of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen. There is something unique about that period, whether it is the see-through muslin of the ladies, the betting books in the gentlemen's clubs, dangerous carriage races to Brighton, or daring widows that walked the edge of scandal. With the shadow of the guillotine and Napoleon hanging over them, the young people of the Regency were determined to enjoy their lives to the full. It was the last fling before the stolid and constricting values of the Victorian era tightened like a corset around them.
Netherfield Park, for example, which featured in the 2005 Pride
and Prejudice. Or Chilham (below), where the 2009 version of Emma was shot. Speaking of which, I've now acquired
a copy, and having seen it three time, it's fasts becoming my favorite version. Chilham, by the way, is a gorgeous tiny
village not too far from Canterbury in Kent.
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