Books to fall in love with

The Regency era has become synonymous with elegance and refinement, of glittering balls and pleasure gardens and the delights of the London season. It was also a time of great change - political, cultural, social and economic. War was raged with Napoleon and on other fronts. It was an age of innovation in science and engineering; advancement in the arts and of great extravagance among the upper classes, in sharp contrast to the poverty that existed among the less affluent and the poor. It was a society under reform on all levels including social welfare.

Here are a few books on the Georgian and Regency period that I keep on my bookshelf:

High Society in the Regency Period 1788-1830 by Venetia Murray
That Sunny Dome – A portrait of Regency Britain by Donald A Low
The Regency Underworld by Donald A Low
The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency by J B Priestley
Tales from the Rifle Brigade by Captain Sir John Kincaid
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aitken Hodge
Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly
Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow’s Guide to Life in London and Paris by R.H. Gronow (edited by Christopher Summerville)
The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery. 
Ackermann’s Illustrated London (illustrations by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson) by Fiona St. Aubyn. 
Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs: the memoirs of the reigning courtesan of Regency London (edited by Lesley Blanch)
Decency and Disorder 1789-1837 by Ben Wilson
London in the 19th Century by Jerry White
The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruickshank
Behind Closed Doors, At Home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery