): Georgian & Regency (1714 - 1830)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is the average ratings for the first one that have put me off trying it.

[Dawn]

Same here, that and the library doesn't have it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That's the thing. When you have to go right out of your way to seek it out and the ratings are average, it becomes one that I won't rush out to try.
I only seek out books (through inter library loan, the publisher or purchase) if the ratings look promising.

[Dawn]

Yep, I agree. Iffy books have to be easy and cheap to get.

[Nancy]

Is this the group for Jane Austin?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I suppose it would be the thread for Jane Austin.
Mind you, Austin didn't write historical fiction she wrote contemporary romance (being set in the time she lived). Technically her books are now Classics.

In saying that, however, we still don't mind if the Classics show up in discussions. :)

[Darcy]

Just a wee tip: likely you'll have more luck finding her book if choosing Jane Austen

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

lol. Ha! yeah I thought so! I took Nancy's lead. Thought I had been spelling it wrong all this time and searched for Austin instead. haha!

[Nancy]

Thanks for the spelling tip, Darcy. Now, to find the thread for Jane Austen.

[Darcy]

Hi Nancy,
This would be the thread for Jane Austen. There is no dedicated thread for that author. :)

[Kimber]

Searched Jane Austen and thought this might be the thread to suggest a particular book. This recently came across my Book review newsletter Off the Shelf and it looks really interesting. I know that a lot of times I use my kindle as more of an encyclopedia when I come across a word or person I'm not familiar with. Here is a book that can help: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist--the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
by Daniel Pool.

"For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs.
An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day."
Available in eBook and realBook. :)

[Dawn]

I have just got my Local Independent Bookseller gift guide and they have a few good looking books for me to mention.

Will Starling by Ian Weir
(1816) The great metropolis of London swaggers with Regency abandon as nineteen-year-old Will Starling returns from the Napoleonic Wars having spent five years assisting a military surgeon. Charming, brash, and damaged, Will is helping his mentor build a medical practice -- and a life -- in the rough Cripplegate area. To do so requires an alliance with the Doomsday Men: body snatchers that supply surgeons and anatomists with human cadavers.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

hmmm..that sounds interesting.

[Dawn]

This is the one I added to my TBR, I like the sounds of it.

[Eileen]

Just finished Julian Stockwin's . I'm not much into the seafaring genre, but it was well written and held my interest to the end.

Is there a Napoleonic Adventure genre, or Regency Adventure genre, the way there is Regency Romance? If not, there really should be, after all of Cornwell's Sharpe books, not to mention the Patrick O'Brian books and now Julian Stockwin's, there certainly seem to be enough writers tackling that aspect of that era to justify it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

A new one out The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

[Mirta]

A different look at our beloved friends of Meryton and Longbourn: The Meyersons of Meryton

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am going to try and reread The Secret River by Kate Grenville.

I gave it three stars and sort of read it many years ago. I remember skipping a lot because at the time, I wasn't that into the period. But I am trying to read some Australian historical fiction authors these days, so i thought I'd have another run at it. See if I get more out of it this time.

[Laura Tenfingers]

I found The Secret River thoroughly depressing and very well done. Left me thinking about it for a while...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The aboriginal massacre is going to be hard to read again. 🙁

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I didn't like the Secret River anymore than I did when i read it nine years ago, unfortunately.
Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I recently read The Making of Martin Sparrow


Set just after this period in early 1830s. It has enough backstory set in the years of this thread that I've decided to put it here. (For a want of somewhere to put it).

Set in convict era News South Wales. Well written and vividly described. I enjoyed it and gave it 3 stars. I felt the plot a bit slow so only Liked It instead of a 4 star Really Liked It.