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This Is Why We're Obsessed With The Regency Era

There's just something about the Bridgerton of it all

We may only be two and a half seasons into one of the greatest slow burns of all time, but there’s no doubt that Colin Bridgerton takes the cake when it comes to the gradual build-up.

The will-he-won’t-he tension with Penelope Featherington already had us hooked for 20 agonising episodes of the hit Netflix show, until the third Bridgerton son finally confessed his love to the girl next door. But it turns out that there’s more to our love affair with the Regency era than undeclared feelings and inappropriate carriage rides, according to Macquarie University Associate Professor of Literature, Stephanie Russo.

She claims the period between 1811 and 1820 has been universally acknowledged as the most popular British era in history in which to set a love story for four very sexy reasons.

While Jane Austen set the benchmark for what Regency romance stories look like, many other authors have spent centuries playing catch up.

Beyond Julia Quinn, who penned the eight novels that Bridgerton is based on, it was Georgette Heyer – a twentieth-century novelist – who really invented the genre as we know it. She was the first person to establish the Regency era as a historical romance period because, of course, Jane Austen was publishing during the Regency, but Heyer was looking back at the Regency from a distance of over 100 years!

It’s very easy to romanticize the Regency era, but I don’t think it was actually very romantic. In reality, if you were a 17-year-old girl and your mother said, ‘Oh, you should go out with this guy’, you’d be like, ‘Yeh, no”. That would be the best way to turn you off him.

Are you still fantasizing about Bridgerton? i'm personally not! I like my love life freedom, sorry!


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