Regency

Regency literature is generally set during the period of the English Regency or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary stories transported to a historical setting, Regency novels are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions that derive from the works of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners. In particular, most Regencies feature a great deal of intelligent, fast-paced dialog between the protagonists and (traditionally) very little explicit sex or discussion of sex.

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A Love Most Daring (Bow Street #3)
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A Bewildered Bachelor (The Gentlemen's Gamble)
An Honorable Love (The Gentlemen's Gamble)
Never Spar with a Viscount (Secret Society of Governess Spies, #3)
The Bewitching Miss Blair (The Society of Scandalous Witches #1)
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The Bird of Bedford Manor
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Queen Charlotte
How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days
Ladies in Hating (Belvoir's Library, #3)
A Love Most Daring (Bow Street #3)
The Marquess Move (The Whitmorelands #2)
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
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The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
Pride and Prejudice
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)
An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
Sense and Sensibility
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
Persuasion
The Grand Sophy
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When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
It's in His Kiss (Bridgertons, #7)
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Georgette Heyer
How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?
Georgette Heyer, Cotillion

Georgette Heyer
Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.
Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

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