A review by cupiscent
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison

informative medium-paced

4.75

A fun, fascinating romp through the Regency and all the aspects that made it the first true flush of modernity in so many ways. It's probably a bit of a pop-history-101 approach, but that suited me tremendously as someone familiar with the trappings but not the actual history. Very readable, and put a lot of things in excellent context for me, though honestly my strongest takeaway is a new understanding of why romance writers and readers like the period so much!