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High Society: A Social History of the Regency Period, 1788-1830
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Include books by the same authorGeorgette Heyer's Regency World
Jennifer Kloester · 381 pages
This book recreates Georgette Heyer's most enchanting characters and their most memorable scenes in the locations in which they actually took place, guiding the reader through them in a series of tours.
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
Flora Fraser · 477 pages
Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess
James Chambers · 250 pages
Jane Austen's England
Roy A. Adkins, Lesley Adkins · 288 pages
Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most beloved of novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth and insight with which she chronicles the wayward hearts of her unforgettable characters. Her work also offers a vivid depiction of rural life in late Georgian and Regency England, its country balls and ivy-covered vicarages, its social hierarchies and it
The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
Margaret C. Sullivan · 224 pages
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
John Bagot Glubb · 52 pages
Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders
Josephine Ross · 133 pages
When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for "literary comment," Jane loved everything about it, except its utter disregard for the manners of the day. The resulting and tender correspondence between the two serves as the foundation for this instructional book.
Wedlock
Wendy Moore · 386 pages
With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of eager suitors, at eighteen she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley · 387 pages
""Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." - Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire. On the eve of the two h
Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
Rosalind Miles · 352 pages
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
Amanda Vickery · 382 pages
In this brilliant new work, the author unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. She introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wal
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford · 352 pages
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologi
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
Stephen Alford · 397 pages
A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy her, their plans most fully realized by the Spanish Armada.
Blood & Roses: the Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
Helen Castor · 426 pages
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down between the years of 1455 and 1485. Yet, as they navigated their disintegrating world, a Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters--about politics, business, shopping, love--and about each other. Extraordinarily, these letters have survived. Drawing on these remarkable letters, Castor has written an intimate and compelling family biogra
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
Paula Byrne · 380 pages
This new biography explores the forces that shaped the interior life of one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. Each chapter begins by evoking an object that conjures up a key moment or theme in Austen's life and work. The woman who emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern that the conventional picture. The book looks at the biograp
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault · 299 pages
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
Karen Armstrong · 442 pages
"In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish.". "We see the West in the sixteenth century beginning to create an entirely new kind of civilization, which brought in its wake change in every aspect of life - often painful and violent, even if liberating. Armstrong argues that one of the things that changed
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey · 320 pages
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Orlando Figes · 761 pages
A Renegade History of the United States
Thaddeus Russell · 400 pages
From the Publisher: In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free. In vivid portraits of renegades and
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Eric Berkowitz · 352 pages
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Paul Fussell · 335 pages
Shuns the heroics portrayed by Hollywood, Fussell concentrates on the human factor in World War II. Examines the everyday life British and American people experienced on the home and battle fronts.
Mistresses: A History of Other Women
Elizabeth Abbott · 510 pages
Author probes the motives and morals of some of history's most infamous and fascinating women. Drawing intimate portraits of those who have--either by chance, coercion or choice--assumed this complex role, from Chinese concubines and European royal mistresses to mobster molls and trophy dolls, Mistresses offers a rich blend of history, personality and cultural study. Historical and biographical p