Writing Regency England: my new favorite research source

 I don’t usually review non-fiction but as Writing Regency England by Jayne Davis and Gail Eastwood (two of my favorite romance authors) is such a useful resource, I’m going to plug it.

 I’ve been doing research for my mid-eighteenth century books since 2013 and when I beta-read Writing Regency England, I knew I was going to buy a copy as soon as it came out.

I read a lot of historical romance and it’s a rare read that doesn’t make me grit my teeth, even when I love the story. Granted, not everyone is as compulsive about research as I am (except, apparently, Davis and Eastwood), but getting the basics of Regency life wrong (like noblemen’s titles) is just…wrong.

This book belongs on the research shelf of anyone who writes Regency period novels. A lot of it is equally useful for those of us who write in the Georgian period, and some would be relevant well into the nineteenth century.

Did you know skunks are not native to Great Britain? Neither did I.