SUGGESTED READING LIST
for Julia and the Master of Morancourt
Books about aspects of life in the Regency period
Mark Girouard
Life in the English Country House, Yale University Press, 1978
Pamela Horn
Flunkies and Scullions: life below stairs in Georgian England, Sutton Publishing, 2004
Jennifer Kloester
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World, William Heinemann, 2005
Roy Porter
English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin Books, 1982
John Rule
The Vital Century: England's Developing Economy 1714 - 1815, Longman, 1992
Janet Todd (edited)
Jane Austen in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Books about historical events affecting Dorset
Robert C. Davis
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy 1500-1800, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Geoffrey Morley
Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset, 1700-1850, Countryside Books, 1983
One of the few Regency novels to mention contemporary technical inventions is
Georgette Heyer
Frederica, Arrow Books, 1965
And two books about Jane Austen
Maggie Lane
Jane Austen’s England, Robert Hale Limited, 1995
Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen: A Life, Penguin Books, 2000
