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I am a fanatic about accuracy during the Regency era so I have a couple of comments.
In fact-checking at a well-known Jane Austen website, member research indicated that dance cards probably did not exist during the term of Miss Austen’s life. I have noticed that many regency romances are not set past her death date of 1817 so the mention of dance cards might be anachronistic. I suspect that dance cards were not necessary due the the extreme (by modern standards) length of each dance – about 30 minutes. Perhaps dance cards are more of a late Georgian/early Victorian conceit.
Another issue concerns the waltz. All the descriptions I have read in regency romances describe a modern version of the waltz without taking into account historical descriptions. Contemporary descriptions (and filmed reenactments available on youtube) indicate less waist holding with swirling and more shoulder holding with fancy footwork
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Hi! I just read your great article on people of color in Regency Englad- both Navy and Clergy and I just wanted to point out that out of all those books written in Regency England SO many have a Duke as a character and I never hear anyone complain about historical accuracy but their were only 34 dukes in Regency England out of a population of 10.5 million.
Thank you for the comment and glad you enjoyed one of our Representing Regency posts! we actually did one of our first posts in the series on the Duke issue: https://regrom.com/2019/08/10/regency-reader-questions-all-about-the-dukes-no-barons/ and by our calculations there were actually only 28 Dukes during the Regency era.
But we agree, its ridiculous that the historical accuracy fingers aren’t solely focused on the abundance of sexy, single Dukes currently in the genre.
We are always interested in learning the other historical accuracy claims or interests that you have, so don’t hesitate to send us suggestions in the comments or using our Reader ? function.
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