Regency

Regency literature is generally set during the period of the English Regency or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary stories transported to a historical setting, Regency novels are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions that derive from the works of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners. In particular, most Regencies feature a great deal of intelligent, fast-paced dialog between the protagonists and (traditionally) very little explicit sex or discussion of sex.

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The Halifax Hellions (Halifax Hellions, #1-2)
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
An Unconventional Lady
If You’ll Have Me
The Bird of Bedford Manor
A Foolish Proposal (The Gentlemen's Gamble)
A Novel Engagement (The Gentlemen's Gamble)
Liberated
The Gentleman's Agreement  (Heirs & Heroes Book 3)
The Sea Child
Like in Love with You
Rules of the Heart
Remember That Day (A Ravenswood Novel)
To Love a Lady (Dollar Princess #1)
An Accidental Marriage (The Gentlemen's Gamble)
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
Queen Charlotte
The Austen Affair
The Sea Child
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
Ladies in Hating (Belvoir's Library #3)
A Love Most Daring (Bow Street #3)
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
A Most Agreeable Murder (Beatrice Steele, #1)
An Accidental Marriage (The Gentlemen's Gamble)
Charming Artemis (The Lancaster Family, #5)
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1)
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The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
Pride and Prejudice
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)
An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
Sense and Sensibility
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
The Grand Sophy
Persuasion
Emma
When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
Edenbrooke (Edenbrooke, #1)
It's in His Kiss (Bridgertons, #7)
Frederica
Arabella

Mimi Matthews
She was lovely, of course. But it wasn’t that which had beguiled him so thoroughly against his will -- against his self-interest and his reason. It was the softness of her. The tender gravity in her gaze, and the reticence in her manner.
Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience

Georgette Heyer
I'll open no gates for you, my girl! You'll take any fence I take, and we'll clear it neck and neck! ...more
Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle

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