'Full of wonderful social titbits and interesting pieces of information' - Amanda Foreman, "Mail On Sunday". The Regency is synonymous with a style unique in the English monarchy's history. A time of transition and paradox, elegance and vulgarity; when Lady Caroline Lamb stabbed herself for love of Byron and Stephenson invented the locomotive; when a mistress cost the equivalent of GBP100,000 a year and a farm labourer kept a family on 15 shillings a week. Murray chronicles the life of the beau monde during this extraordinary period. The book is lavishly illustrated with satirical prints of the period.
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Venetia Murray's previous books include ECHOES OF THE EAST END and CASTLE HOWARD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A STATELY HOME. She lives in Wiltshire and has a grown-up family.
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I found this book a light and delicious souffle. Academic history it is not: but a great read for the general public who are interested in daily life, love, money - and all the things we all care about as much now as we did two hundred years ago - Yes, and Yes again. Full of amusing stories,witty, very well-researched and exactly what the author claims in her Preface. She writes "'High Society in the Regency Period' was never intended to be taken as a sociological survey: the aim of this book was to convey the mood of the Regency, to entertain my readers, and, perhaps, to enlighten a few." I am not at all surprised the hardback edition received so many flattering reviews from such authorities as Christopher Hibbert and Philip Zeigler. I quite agree with them!
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By Clifford
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This is an amusing and informative book, providing a well-rounded view of the delights and excesses of the Regency period, which marked such a major transformation of society in England and set the scene for the sustained stability of the Victorian era. The self-confidence, indeed arrogance, of the era comes over strongly, as does the humour with which we may view it from 200 years later. The book is made possible by the enthusiasm with which its upper-class participants felt the need to write letters and diaries, and in consequence the relationships between High Society and the hard and poorly rewarded efforts of the working classes are only present by inference, but Murray provides much material which allow the reader to drawn such conclusions. As one whose education has been light in the area of history, I found this book very enlightening, and a joy to read.
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By Lynne Robson
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This book is a re-issue under a differnet name of Ms Murray's An Elegant Madness. I was disappointed to find that it was the exact copy of her other noval Elegant Madness but enjoyed it just as much. Ms Murray as a very funny way of explaining things and had me laughing all the way through this book. It is a wonderful insight into the workings of the Regency Society. I loved the pictures that are shown in this book as well. I was surprised to find that a Mistress had a better time than a wife and was cared for more.
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