{"id":692,"date":"2010-09-01T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2010-09-01T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T02:52:11","slug":"review-georgette-heyers-regency-world-by-jennifer-kloester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/review-georgette-heyers-regency-world-by-jennifer-kloester\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cover<\/a>Georgette Heyer’s Regency World<\/em><\/strong> by Jennifer Kloester. Published by Sourcebooks. ISBN: 978-1-4022-4136-9, 387 pages including index. Trade Paperback. $14.99 (Amazon: $10.19; Kindle: $9.68)<\/p>\n

Georgette Heyer’s Regency World<\/em> by Jennifer Kloester is just what the title implies, it\u2019s a book about the Regency World that made up the background for Heyer\u2019s Regency books. It helps to explain to today\u2019s readers the nitty gritty details of what it was like to live in that time, in that society, and explains a lot of the customs, rules, and etiquette of that period. Now I know that makes it sounds like it would be incredibly dull and boring but, in fact, Kloester’s book is extremely readable. I started with the intent to read it front to back and before I was in more than 30 pages, I found myself reading a bit that made me think of a question, so I checked the table of contents and index and thereafter I skipped and dipped into the book at will, checking on those things that had niggled at the back of my brain when reading one book or another.<\/p>\n

I wanted to read this book because I read a fair number of books that take place during the Regency Period. I will admit that I don\u2019t read a lot of Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels. So, while the book is filled with examples from Heyer’s writings, I wasn’t familiar with the works cited; however, that\u2019s not a problem because Kloester gives enough background that if you\u2019ve read in the period you\u2019ll get pick up what’s being explained from the books you have read.<\/p>\n

Georgette Heyer’s Regency World<\/em> is well organized so that the reader can go to a specific section to find an answer to questions about what the society was like and how it worked. Chapters are titled: Up and Down the Social Ladder; At Home in Town and Country; A Man\u2019s World; The Gentle Sex; On the Town; The Pleasure Haunts of London; The Fashionable Resorts; Getting About; What to Wear; Shopping; Eat, Drink and Be Merry; The Sporting Life; Business and the Military; and Who\u2019s Who in the Regency. Each chapter in the table of contents is listed with a subset of what\u2019s included in that chapter, for example; the chapter on Getting About includes: All Kinds of Carriages; On Drivers and Driving; Public Transport; On the Road; Long-Distance Travel; and Turnpikes, Toll-gates and Tickets. Each individual chapter starts with an overview of what will be covered in that chapter. I was surprised to learn that long distance travel was considered anything further away than 10 miles. That\u2019s rather difficult to wrap your mind around when most of us travel further than that one-way to work now-a-days.<\/p>\n

There are also black and white illustrations throughout the book. I found the pictures of the various types of carriages, the cut-a-way view of a London townhouse, types of dress, and a circulating library, among others to be worth more than words while changing the mind pictures I\u2019d built up while reading. There are also several appendices: A Glossary of Cant and Common Regency Phrases; Newspapers and Magazines; Books in Heyer; Timeline; Reading about the Regency and Where Next?; and Georgette Heyer’s Regency Novels.<\/p>\n

For readers of books set in the Regency period, Georgette Heyer’s Regency World <\/em>is an outstanding resource for understanding the world and society those characters lived in. For those who read books that take place in historical settings, the world has changed. Many of the social conventions that ruled the lives of the people living in Regency England no longer apply. Even during that period people who were born into the lower social classes found it difficult to deal with the myriad levels of behavior that those in the upper class were breed and trained to exhibit in their behavior. Many of the books set in that period mention the misunderstandings and missteps that characters took when moving into a higher social circle than that which they grew up in.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy the Regency period, and want to have a better understanding of what society was like, this is probably the best, most accessible and readable book you\u2019ll find on the subject. Even though I haven’t yet read Heyer\u2019s Regency novels (I now have several on my to be read pile), I found Georgette Heyer\u2019s Regency World<\/em> a wonderful guide to the ins and outs of this social, cultural, historical time period of so many of the books that I read as a Jane Austen fan.<\/p>\n

I’d like to hear other readers’ impressions of this work. Have you read it? Do you plan to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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