Posts tagged “regency england”

  1. How To Tell If You Are In A Regency-Era Novel Written After The End Of The Regency

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in How To Tell If You’re In a Novel

    You have just swept someone a magnificent, yet insolent, leg.

    You have interrupted a game of wist to introduce the players to your ward.

    You have been pronounced a social success by the greatest bitch in Paris.

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