Regency Era (1810-1813)

Public Domain Works

  • Sermons to Young Women by James Fordyce, Volume I & Volume II
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Emma by Jane Austen

    • Available in US Libraries

  • The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

    • Relevant Fiction

  • A Spy's Devotion by Melanie Dickerson

    Sitcom Shenanigans

  • Wore the wrong slippers or boots for a promenade
  • Older reticule or bag starts to come apart at the seams
  • Girl always pretends to faint in front of cute guys
  • Woman dresses as if she's headed to court all the time
  • Called out recognizably in a scandal sheet
  • Chaperone stays too close
  • Keeps losing easily distracted chaperone
  • Loses hat
  • Caught smoking in the wrong setting
  • Placed beside someone annoying at a dinner
  • Woman keeps going in and out of a room and every man present has to stand every time
  • Trapped in opera box with someone annoying
  • Woman never wears a bonnet
  • Woman always wears the same dress, just slightly edited for every function
  • Woman always insists on taking turns about the room, enough so that she basically never sits
  • Seems to have been called out in a scandal sheet but it was actually someone else
  • Man pretends to have been in the army
  • The kiss hello
  • Annoying little yappy dog
  • "The fabric of society is very complex"
  • "Steve the courier is an idiot"

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