The Murder of Mr. Wickham is set in 1820, at the very end of the Regency period. Jane Austen’s novels were published within a few years of one another—in the case of her first three books, many years after they were written. This obscures the fact that her writing spans nearly the entire Regency period, during which manners and fashions altered. So while we can find hints that different books came earlier or later, the only one of Austen’s novels that can be specifically dated is Persuasion, which takes place in 1814 and 1815. I’ve taken advantage of the lack of dates, assigning a time frame
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If this novel is ever turned into a movie, it would be great to see Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle reprise their roles as Darcy and Lizzie. In "Murder", 22 years have passed since the events of "Pride and Prejudice," and it's now been 27 years since those events were filmed in the BBC miniseries.
