It is a truth universally acknowledged that regency romances are a sub-genre unto themselves. Perennially beloved, this literary landscape is where members of the Ton – the men in thigh-hugging ...

In “The Force of Such Beauty,” a new novel publishing in July, writer Barbara Bourland critiques the happily ever after in the form of a modern fairy tale: a former Olympian is swept off her feet by a ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. What makes a book like Bridgerton? For one, it should be a Regency romance ...

Bea Koch’s deep dive into the lives of early 19th century women, “Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency,” began with just one woman: Judith Montefiore, a multi-linguist, diarist and the author of ...

Whether you like Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer or something more real, we have a love story for your listening pleasure In the refrain of one of her dyspeptic “love” poems, Dorothy Parker wrote: ...

Author Vanessa Riley first started reading romance novels as an escape from her Ph.D studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford. Now she’s published more than 20 books of romance and historical ...

The real question is this: how is it that the privileged lives of the British upper classes, in a period of time which lasted arguably less than a decade, have managed to leave behind such an ...