I am looking for websites where I can find information on the English Regency period ?

Question

I want to find original material on the period in question that can help with my next novel

Answer 1

www.romanceauthorspage.com; www.charlottedillon.com/researchlinks; www.ecletics.com/writing/writing;

Answer 2

There are a lot of places, trends and people from that persons you may find interesting:

Artistic trends

Aristocratic dandies were satirised as being preoccupied with the tying and arrangement of their cravats (1818 caricature)

Aristocratic dandies were satirised as being preoccupied with the tying and arrangement of their cravats (1818 caricature)

    * Regency architecture

    * Regency fashions

    * Regency dance

    * Regency novels

    * Regency Silver Snuffboxes

Famous places

    * Almack's

    * Brighton Pavilion

    * Carlton House

    * Brooks's

    * White's

    * Vauxhall Gardens

    * Ranelagh Gardens

    * The Pantheon

    * Tattersalls

    * Her Majesty's Theatre

    * Little Theatre, Haymarket

    * Drury Lane

    * Covent Garden

    * St George Hanover Square

    * Astley's Ampitheatre

    * Attingham Park Shrewsbury (National Trust)

Famous people

    * Jane Austen

    * Beau Brummell

    * George Gordon, Lord Byron

    * Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

    * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

    * Charles Lamb

    * Sarah, Countess of Jersey

    * Lady Caroline Lamb

    * Princess Lieven

    * Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

    * Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    * John Keats

    * Percy Bysshe Shelley

    * Walter Scott

    * William Wordsworth

    * William Hazlitt

    * Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA

    * J.M.W. Turner

    * Thomas Raikes

    * John Nash

    * Thomas de Quincey

    * Emma, Lady Hamilton

the wikipedia link below provides links to the above mentioned items.

Answer 3

There are quite a few sites, many for Regency writers.  Here are a few that should help:

http://www.gaelenfoley.com/index-06histo...

http://www.sophianash.com/era.htm

http://www.annegracie.com/links.htm

http://www.thenonesuch.com/links.html

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/magazine/pag...

http://www.wemakehistory.com/Fashion/Reg...

http://www.songsmyth.com/images.html

http://www.regencylady.net/repository/Fa...

http://heyerlist.org/slang.html

Hope these are helpful!