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The period of the Regency is the most romantic period of British history. It was an age which swung between extremes of elegance and refinement and depths of sodden brutality. The central figure is the Prince Regent, Prinny, and though he sometimes appears as a gigantic spoilt child, he was famously good company and a notable patron of the arts. With his novelist's insight the author paints a glittering portrait of the Romantic Age. It was an Age of Extravagance when the ruling class 'blazed, crackled and fizzed in a torrid Indian Summer'. It was an Age marked by prize-fights and Luddite riots, the Congress of Vienna, the battles of Waterloo and Peterloo, the first waltzes and the first locomotives and half-naked children sweeping chimneys.
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The Regency Period is perhaps the most romantic of British history. It was an age which swung between extremes of elegance and refinement, and depths of sodden brutality. The central figure is the Prince Regent, Prinny, and though he sometimes appears as a gigantic spoilt child, he was famously good company and a notable patron of the arts. The author portrays the personalities of the giants of the romantic age - Byron, Shelley, Sheridan, Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott; Davy Faraday and Macadam; Turner, Constable and Cotman - to name a few. It was an age of extravagance; an age marked by great eccentricities and prodigous jokes; the luddite riots; the Battles of Waterloo and Peterloo; the first waltzes and the first locomotives.
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Born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1894, J.B. Priestley served in the infantry in the First World War before taking a degree at Cambridge University. Journalist, critic, novelist and playwright, Priestley was awarded the Order of Merit in 1977 and died in 1984. He is also the author of THE EDWARDIANS published in Penguin Classic History.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0141391065
- ISBN 13 9780141391069
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