And to all the members of the Inspirational Regency Readers group on Facebook, thank you! Thank you for making the group such a fun place to hang out, for your enthusiastic support of the genre and your favorite authors, and for your encouragement and kind words about our work. www.facebook.com/groups/inspirationalregencyreaders.

Researching the Regency era is fascinating, and there is always something new to learn. Above, I’ve included just a handful of the websites I’ve visited in my research, as well as a brief list below of some of the titles I’ve consulted that might be of interest to you too.

Erica Vetsch

Rochester, Minnesota

2021

Recommended Reading

General Regency History

Laudermilk, Sharon H., and Teresa L. Hamlin. The Regency Companion. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1989.

Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain. London: The Bodley Head, 2020.

Wilkes, Sue. A Visitor’s Guide to Jane Austen’s England. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History, 2014.

Architecture

Girouard, Mark. A Country House Companion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

St. Aubyn, Fiona. Ackermann’s Illustrated London. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1985.

Mills and Milling

Macaulay, David. Mill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Yorke, Stan. Windmills and Waterwheels Explained: Machines That Fed the Nation. Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books, 2006.

Crime and Police

Beattie, J. M. The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750–1840. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Fullerton, Susannah. Jane Austen and Crime. Madison, WI: Jones Books, 2006.

Hamilton, Joseph. The Duelling Handbook, 1829. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications Inc., 2012. First published 1829 by Hatchard & Sons (London).

Richmond [pseud.]. Richmond: Scenes in the Life of a Bow Street Runner, Drawn up from His Private Memoranda. With a new introduction by E. F. Bleiler. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1976. First published 1827 in three volumes by Henry Colburn (London).

Worsley, Lucy. The Art of the English Murder. New York: Pegasus Crime, 2014.

“Vetsch kicks off her Thorndike and Swann Regency Mysteries with a propulsive tale about a family of spies.… [Juliette and Daniel’s] slow-burning romance comes together naturally as they navigate the glamorous world of debutantes. Fans of Jen Turano will delight in this pleasing mystery and eagerly await the second installment.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Carefully crafted Regency mystery.… Part of an inherently fascinating new series that combines mystery and suspense with elements of Regency-era elegance, decadence, adventure, and romance.”

—Midwest Book Review