by Diane Morris | Oct 22, 2015 | Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Regency Gentleman
What did Jane Austen mean when she said that a gentleman had good breeding? For example, in Pride and Prejudice Jane Bennet tells her sister Elizabeth that in Mr. Bingley she never saw “so much ease, with such perfect good breeding.”1 In Persuasion Sir Walter Elliot...
by Diane Morris | Oct 8, 2015 | Life & Times, Regency Gentleman, Regency Research
The first lesson I learned researching the Regency era is that it’s hard to get the history right. The second lesson learned is this: if I were a man living in Jane Austen’s day, I would be considered illiterate. This point is driven home whenever I read a popular...