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A review by oliainchina
Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
4.0
Jennifer Kloester’s is a semi-academic work on the world of Georgette Heyer novels, in which she uses the writer’s characters as examples of this or that Regency custom.
Either it was the author or me who was interested in social reality of that time, but that was the part that was particularly engaging. Chapters on clothes, shopping and entertainment were detailed, but rather dry and not emotionally involving.
The chapters on class and historical background that is Napoleonic wars were especially enlightening. None of the Heyer novels dealt expressively with either the wars, French refugees, or poverty, but this book pointed my attention to little details in her novels that were representative of those realities.
A good introduction to the Regency period and a reference book to Heyer novels.
Either it was the author or me who was interested in social reality of that time, but that was the part that was particularly engaging. Chapters on clothes, shopping and entertainment were detailed, but rather dry and not emotionally involving.
The chapters on class and historical background that is Napoleonic wars were especially enlightening. None of the Heyer novels dealt expressively with either the wars, French refugees, or poverty, but this book pointed my attention to little details in her novels that were representative of those realities.
A good introduction to the Regency period and a reference book to Heyer novels.