High society in the Regency period, 1788-1830 - Venetia Murray

'Full of wonderful social titbits and interesting pieces of information.' - Amanda Foreman, Mail On Sunday The Regency is synonymous with a style unique in the English monarchy's history. A time of transition and paradox, elegance and vulgarity;when Lady Caroline Lamb stabbed herself for love of Byron and Stephenson invented the locomotive; when a mistress cost the equivalent of 100,000 a year and a farm labourer kept a family on 15 shillings a week. Murray chronicles the life of the beau monde during this extraordinary period. Lavishly illustrated with satirical prints of the period.