description: 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.
language: English
title: High Society in the Regency Period, 1788-1830
titlecomplete: High Society in the Regency Period, 1788-1830
genres: Historical, History, Reference, Georgian, 19th Century, Regency, 18th Century, Research, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 761
publisher: Penguin