1. Day, Malcolm.  Voices from the World of Jane Austen.  David & Charles, 2006.
2.  Erickson, Carolly.  Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England.  NY:  William Morrow, 1986. 
3. Girouard, Mark.  Life in the English Country House:  A Social and Architectural History.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1978.
4. Hughes, Kristine. Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, from 1811-1901.  Cincinnati, OH:  Writer’s Digest Books, 1998.
5. Kloester, Jennifer.  Georgette Heyer’s Regency World.  London:  William Heinemann, 2005.
6. Laudermilk, Sharon and Teresa L. Hamlin.  The Regency Companion.  NY:  Garland, 1989.
7. Murray, Venetia. An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England.  Viking, 1999.
8. Olsen, Kristin. All Things Austen.  Greenwood Press, 2005.  [a must-have two-volume compendium of “all things Austen”  focusing on her regency times; a one-volume  abridged version in paperback is also available].
9. Pool, Daniel.  What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: from fox-hunting to whist – the facts of daily life in Nineteenth-century England.  NY:  Simon & Schuster, 1993.
10. Porter, Roy.  English Society in the Eighteenth Century [Penguin Social History of Britain].  Rev. ed.  Penguin, 1990.
11. Sinclair, Olga.  Gretna Green:  a romantic history.  London:  Unwin  Hyman, 1989
12. Vickery, Amanda.  Behind Closed Doors:  At Home in Georgian England.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 2009.
13. Vickery, Amanda.  The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 1998.
14. Walkley, Christina.  Welcome Sweet Babe:  a book of Christenings.  London:  Peter Owen,  1987.  [Includes a bibliography, an appendix on how to make a Victorian christening robe, and recipes.]

Links:

•  Regency Encyclopedia [password required]
• The Regency Collection [A. Woodley website with many Regency links]
• Nancy Meyer Regency Researcher
• Regency England
• Georgian Index
• Measuring Worth – the purchasing power of the British Pound, 1264-present
• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose at Project Gutenberg
• Candice Hern’s Regency World – many links
• English Theatrical Portraits, 1799-1847 – NYPL Digital Gallery
• Old & Interesting:  History of Domestic Paraphernalia
• Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era [NYPL Digital Gallery]
• the London Season [from Literary Liasons]
• Vauxhall Gardens
• Regency Lexicon at Good Ton
• Sophia Nash’s Lexicon of Slang
• Mostly Victorian.com – articles and illustrations from Victorian books and magazines
• Regency Lady

1. Beeton, Isabella.  The Book of Household Management. 1861. [at MrsBeeton.com; also ebooks edition at Adelaide]
2. Black, Maggie and Deirdre Le Faye.  The Jane Austen Cookbook.  London:  British Museum Press, 1995.
3. Bradley, Richard.  The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director.  London, 1728.
4. Lane, Maggie.  Jane Austen and Food.  London:  Hambledon, 1995.
5. Olsen, Kirsten.  Cooking with Jane Austen.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood, 2005.
6. Smith, Eliza.  The Compleat Housewife.  London, 1727 ;  available in a new edition introduced by Elizabeth Kowalski Wallace (2009) at Chawton House Library
7. Wilson, Kim.  Tea with Jane Austen.  Madison, WI:  Jones Books, 2004.

Links:

• Cookery Books at Prospect Books
• Food & Drink in Regency England [to 2003]
• The Food Timeline
• The Food Timeline – History of Meals & Holiday Entertaining
• The Foody, UK & Ireland:  Historic Baking Recipes
•  Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online at Two Thousand Eggs.com
• History Cookbook
•  Regency Recipes [at JA Centre online magazine]

DANCE   [see also ” Music ” below] 

1. Franks, Arthur Henry.  Social Dance:  A Short History.  London: Routledge, 1963.
2. Lee-Riffe, Nancy M.  “The Role of Country Dance in te Fiction of Jane Austen”, Women’s Writing, 5:1 [1998], pp. 103-12.
3. Richardson, Philip J.S.  The Social Dances of the Nineteenth Century in England.  London: Herbert Jenkins,  1960.
4. Wilson, Thomas.  A Companion to the Ball Room.  London, 1816.
5.  Wilson, Thomas, dancing master. An analysis of country dancing: wherein are displayed all the figures ever used in country dances, in a way so easy and familiar, that persons of the meanest capacity may in a short time acquire (without the aid of a master) a complete knowledge of that rational and polite amusement. To which are added, instructions for dancing some entire new reels; together with the rules, regulations, and complete etiquette of the ball room. By T. Wilson … Embellished and illustrated with engravings on wood, by J. Berryman. London, Printed by W. Calvert, to be had to Mr. Dutton [etc.] 1808.

• An American Ballroom Companion:  Dance Instruction Manuals, ca 1490-1920 at the Library of Congress
• Burlington English Country Dancers
• Country Dance and Song Society
• Earthly Delights Dance Index 
• Capering & Kickery
• Regency Ballroom  CD  [ECD music from Bright Star-audio samples and order from]

ETIQUETTE  

1. Gisborne, Thomas.  An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex.  7th ed.  London, 1806. [Google Books]
2. The Mirror of the Graces, or the English Lady’s Costume.  1830 [Google Books] – with “hints on female accomplishments and manners”
3.  The Polite Academy: or, School of Behavior for Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Intended as a Foundation for Good Manner and Polite Address.  London, 1768.
4. Ross, Josephine; illus by Henrietta Webb.  Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners:  Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders.  NY:  Bloomsbury, 2006.

FASHION

1. Byrde, Penelope.  Jane Austen Fashion:  Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen. Ludlow:  Excellent Press, 1999; reprinted by Moonrise Press in 2008.  [originally published in 1979 by the Bath City Council as “A Frivolous Distinction: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen”] 
2. Dowling, Sarah Jane.  Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen.  Oxford:  Shire, 2010.  

• Ackermann’s Repository of Arts & Literature – at Internet Archive: links to downloads of the journal 1809-1829 – fabulous!
• Austentation
• Burnley & Trowbridge Co. – Fabrics, Notions, Patterns, Research Books, Shoes and accessories 
• Cloak & Corset – Historical Clothing Construction; also see their Historical Sewing Blog
• Costume Gallery
• Costume of the ladies of England 1810-1823  [NYPL Digital Gallery]
• Costume Page – costuming resources online
• Costumer’s Manifesto
• Demode – Historical Costume
• Dressing History – Milliners, Dressmakers & Haberdashers
• Eigtheenth Century Garb Homepage: Handbook of English Costume in the 18th century, 1700-1750
• Eigtheenth Century Garb Homepage: Handbook of English Costume in the 18th century, 1750-1800
• Fashion Era – Regency
• Fashion Historian blog
• Fashion Museum, Bath
• Fashion Plate Collection-UWashington
• Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology, by Sue Felshin
• Godey’s Lady’s Book Online [Hope Greenberg and Sarah Hale sites]
• Hair Exhibit – 1790-1840
• Jessamyn’s Regency Costume
• La Mode Bagatelle
• LACMA Costumes & Textiles Collections online – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Maggie May’s Costume History Pages
• Making a Regency Ball Gown
• “Preposterous Headdresses” – Lewis Walpole Library Exhibit 2003
• Regency & Romantic Era Clothing at Live Journal [discussion forum]
• Regency Costume links
• Regency Fashion in Winter – article by Linore Burkard
• Regency Fashion Page – Catherine Decker’s page, with links to fashion magazines, plates, etc. – fabulous resource!
• Regency Repository
• Sense & Sensibility Patterns
• What to Wear 

 LETTER WRITING

• The Complete Letter-Writer, or Polite English Secretary.  14th edition.  London, 1772 [Google Books]
• Handwriting in the time of Jane Austen, by Robert Hurford
• Letters & Letter-writing by Wendy Russ

• AFTERNOON TEA SERENADE.  San Francisco Silverwood Ensemble.  Sharon O’Connor’s Menus and Music, Vol. XII (Menus and Music, 1997)  A wonderful compilation of works by Bach, Faure, Mozart, Anonymous (obviously a woman!), Miyagi, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Lully, Satie, and Salzedo…all perfect background for your next Jane Austen Tea!  (and the recipe book is totally delicious!)
• THE JANE AUSTEN COMPANION (Nimbus Records, 1996)  Includes 15 tracks by Mendelssohn, Haydn, Fasch, Bach, Boyce, Mehul, and Schubert, and an article by David A. Threasher on Jane Austen and the music of her time.
• JANE AUSTEN’S SONGBOOK (Albany Records) – marketed as ‘Jane Austen’s favourite vocal music, collected and copied out in her own hand’
• JANE AUSTEN SONGS; performed by Patricia Wright (soprano) and John Gillaspie (fortepiano) (Pearl)
• JANE’S HAND: THE JANE AUSTEN SONGBOOKS (VOX)
• PIANO CLASSICS FROM THE WORLD OF JANE AUSTEN; performed by Karlyn Bond (Wildman Music Group, 1996)  Includes works by Haydn, Field, Cramer, Mozart, Clementi, Johann Schobert, and Beethoven, with an essay by Bond and a selected bibliography about Austen and music.
• THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE COLLECTION: A SELECTION OF DANCES POPULAR IN THE 18TH & 19TH CENTURIES.  Music by the Pemberley Players (Fain Music, 1997)  “To be fond of dancing is a certain step towards falling in love” (JA)

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Music From Films

• EMMA: MUSIC FROM THE MIRAMAX MOTION PICTURE; music by Rachel Portman (Hollywood Records)
• PRIDE AND PREJUDICE:  ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FROM THE BBC TELEVISION SERIAL.  Music composed and conducted by Carl Davis, Melvyn Tan (fortepiano).  (BBC Audio, 1995).  Hearing the music brings to mind every scene from the movie, and thus, not a bad way to spend 54 minutes, 46 seconds…but you will of  course then need to sit and watch the 6-hour movie all over again!
• PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE; music by Dario Marianello; performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Decca)
• SENSE & SENSIBILITY: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK; music by Patrick Doyle (Sony) 

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THEATRE:

1. Byrne, Paula.  Jane Austen and the Theatre.  London:  Hambledon, 2002.
2. Gay, Penny.  Jane Austen and the Theatre.  Cambridge University Press, 2002.

[not too confusing!]