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[justice_turtle]

Turns out Jane Austen published her first novel (Sense and Sensibility) the same year George IV became Regent of England, i.e. 1811. We were discussing how precisely she overlapped with the Regency period, so. :-)

(Facts. FACTS EVERYWHERE. I like history. :D)

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[lost_spook]

Aw, glad you're having fun! *hugs*

(Though both S&S and P&P were written in the 1790s and then rewritten in the published versions, and that Northanger Abbey was the first book she had bought by a publisher - they just for some reason never chose to actually publish it, and it took her years to get it back from them. (She apologies for its being out of date in the introduction.) Although, I think she'd be rather surprised to be equated with the irrelevancy of who was or wasn't on the throne while she happened to be writing - as would most of us, unless we were very political, I think. And what we tend to think of as "regency" is a rather inaccurate term that doesn't necessarily relate to the actual period of the regency. Also Jane Austen did not think very much of the Prince Regent and was not all that pleased at having to dedicate a book to him. Because she was pretty awesome, really.)

;-)

History is great, btw, and so is Jane Austen. ♥ (The Daughter of Time much less so, sadly.)

[justice_turtle]

I think I was thinking more of her defining "Regency fiction", her and Georgette Heyer, than... I don't know, actually being specially influenced by the Regency period? :-)

I don't know. I may not have been very coherent last night, as all my comments seem to be in the "wtf? I can't let this pass in silence" mode. ;P

[lost_spook]

You were having fun; it was cool. :-)

And it's kind of... the regency romance genre was a thing accidentally invented by Georgette Heyer, really. Until then, it wasn't a particular thing in itself. And historically, she does fit into the period quite precisely, but history being what it is, it isn't as neat as it looks!