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Georgette Heyer's Regency World (Hardcover)

by Jennifer Kloester (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd; illustrated edition edition (6 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0434013293
  • ISBN-13: 978-0434013296
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 224,977 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A bestselling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is known across the world for her historical romances set in Regency England. Millions of readers love the period for its fashion, famous people and events, and its elegant and often outrageous mayfly upper-class. It was Georgette Heyer who created the Regency genre of historical fiction in the 1930s and 40s with books such as "Regency Buck and Friday's Child". Since then, in many minds, Georgette Heyer and the Regency have become synonymous. The ultimate, definitive guide to Georgette Heyer's world: her heroines, her villains and dashing heroes, the shops, clubs and towns they frequented, the parties and seasons they celebrated, how they ate, drank, dressed, socialized, shopped and drove. This is an utterly delightful and fun read, beautifully illustrated and a must-read for any Heyer fan.

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A must-have guide to the people, places and society in Georgette Heyer's Regency Novels

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, reference and readable, 2 Jul 2006
As the patroness of two online discussion lists, Janeites, for Jane Austen Fans, and the Georgette Heyer discussion list, I am just the audience who Kloester's is aiming at with this book, and I have to say she absolutely hit the mark! This is an extraodinary book and one which I will be happily recommending.

I get questions all the time from people who want to write Regency novels and are looking for a good overall book to guide them, and from others who want to know more about the REgency and Georgian world which Heyer inhabited for her unique Drawing Room romantic/comedies. Generally I give them an outline of a series of books which they could read which will give them some background, but there has never been a truly comprehensive book which is both academic, readable, spefcific to the period and general enough to cover everything but still give a confident grasp of detail. This book finally does and well done to Kloester for acheiving that.

Her chapter summaries at the start give you a very good idea of the information covered so you are able to go to what you want immediately - chapters include Up and down the social ladder, Town and country, Man's world, Gentle Sex, on the town, Pleasure haunts, Fashionable resorts, Getting about, What to Wear, Shopping, Eat, Drink and be merry, Sporting life, Business and the military, whos who in the Regency includes extremely useful appendixes such as glossary of cant terms, newspapers and magazines, book in heyer, timeline, reading about REgency, where to go next and so forth with some excellent references for easy access - I was also flattered to find my own website in the www addresses so thanks for that too Jennifer.

I was surprised to see a reviewer saying that there was no new information in this. I strongly contest this. Kloester has done more than simply rehash old information, she has provided some new insights for me (I never knew for instance that Rotten Row) was originally Rue de Roi - or street of the King - but she has used her extensive knowledge of Heyer novels to reference items in the REgency.

This is not the sort of book where you can find analysis of Heyer's novels one by one - Hodge's excellent work, the Private World of Georgette Heyer which has just been reissued is definitely the book for that. However you can read about REgency life in here with reference to Heyer's novels.

I would highly recommend this to all Regency fans, those who wish to write a novel, and those who simply wish to understand more in one handy reference book. This is an excellent jumping off point for further reading, but it is also an extremely good book for any fans of the REgency knowledgeable or otherwise. I will definitely be reading anything else Kloester publishes!

A Woodley
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good companion guide, 11 Feb 2006
By M. Styles (Northumberland UK) - See all my reviews
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Caution: The Regency World of Georgette Heyer will make you want to reread Georgette Heyer -- in particular Friday's Child and Regency Buck. It is the ideal present for someone who loves Georgette Heyer and is interested in the world she created and the world of the Regency. All manner of things are explained and a very useful guide to cant is included.
An excellent addition to guides about the Regency.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read for fans of Regency literature, 7 Feb 2008
By S. Barnes (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Georgette Heyer's Regency World (Paperback)
Readers of Regency literature should be delighted to find this informative and well-written book newly available in paperback. Jennifer Kloester has really delved into the heart of the upper echelons of society during the Regency period and her book provides a substantive, yet easy-to-read, account of many different aspects of Regency culture.

Aimed at Heyer fans, with constant references back to characters in Georgette Heyer novels, it's also going to appeal to Austen fans and general readers alike. I found it fascinating to read about the different layers in upper class society and the finer points of etiquette and moral standards. I'd always wondered what the differences were between fops and bucks and dandys, and I had never had any idea at all of what a nonpareil was! It's interesting too to read about the details of the London Season - the most fashionable places to be seen, who would be invited to what, and in particular to read about the most exclusive establishment of Almack's and the highly sought after vouchers for visiting there.

You'll find a wealth of easily accessible information packed into these pages and it's sure to help enhance the enjoyment of all Regency novels, not just Georgette Heyer's. One very small gripe would be that there are the odd occasions in the book where I would have liked a footnote or reference to where the information had come from. An impressively researched and readable reference book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Georgette Heyer's Regency World
Very disappointing, I wish I'd read the one star review before buying this book. It's badly written, repetitive, banal, and inaccurate. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jan Darke

3.0 out of 5 stars A helpful but flawed reference
This is a very helpful reference book to those who read and enjoy the novels of Georgette Heyer. There are descriptions of places, clothing, customs and language which gives more... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Helen Hancox

3.0 out of 5 stars A helpful but flawed reference
This is a very helpful reference book to those who read and enjoy the novels of Georgette Heyer. There are descriptions of places, clothing, customs and language which gives more... Read more
Published on 3 April 2006 by Helen Hancox

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much there I didn't already know
This is mildly interesting if you're a fan of the Georgette Heyer books/Regency period with nice illustrations, but it does read rather like a school essay. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2006 by Stephanie Smith

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I'd expected a "scholarship for the layman" work, but the author appears merely to have culled much of the content from Heyer's novels. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2006 by mrsmeyer

5.0 out of 5 stars Georgette Heyer's Regency World
An incredibly detailed work that must sit alongside not only the reader of Georgette Heyer's Regency novels but anyone interested the Regency period. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2005

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