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Austen and Regency related non-fiction.

In the Garden with Jane Austen
A look at the gardens that surrounded Jane Austen and their impact on her writing.

Two Guys Read Jane Austen
Again, the Gender Issue...

Claire Tomalin and Carol Shields on Jane Austen's Life
Find out what Jane Austen was really like in these two, in depth biographies

Jane Austen: A Life
A not to be missed biography

Jane Austen in Fashion: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen
A lovely little edition by the curator of the Museum of Costume in Bath

Perdita:
The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson

The Girl From Botany Bay
A description of life for the deported in Australia

The Art of War
The British Military Spectacle and Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon

101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen:
The Truth About the World's Most Intriguing Romantic Heroine

The Jane Austen Handbook
A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

The Worlds of Georgette Heyer
Reviews of Georgette Heyer's Private and Regency Worlds

The End of Napoleon's Power
Two books look at the fall and imprisonment of the one time Emperor

Biographies From the War
Capt Gronow and Sir Harry Smith write their memoirs

Kings and Princes
Reveiws of: George III: A Personal History and Royal Dukes: The Father and Uncles of Queen Victoria

Passion and Principle & The Regency Underworld
The Seedy Side of Regency Life

Jane Austen's Letters and The Cambridge Companion
Two books essential to any Austen Scholar The Cambridge Jane Austen Companion and Jane Austen's Letters

What the Butler Saw & High Society in the Regency
Two books which look at the lives of the Upper Class and Servants

Scholarly looks at Trafalgar and Waterloo
Trafalgar : The Biography of a Battle and Waterloo : June 18, 1815, The Battle for Modern Europe

To the Great House Accordingly They Went
A look inside some of the best houses in England

The Play's The Thing
Where to find the scripts of Jane Austen Films

Tea With Jane Austen
Settle in for a cosy chat over a steaming cuppa...

Effusions of Fancy
...Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New

Medically Speaking
Learning about Georgian Medicines and Treatments

Thought For Food
A history of the Englishman's Food and an interview with Wellington's Cook.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
A few controversial female authors of the Regency Period.

Defending Hertfordshire Against the French
Life in Wellington's Army and Napoleon's prisons

The Duke got the Duchess...
Georgiana, the fascinating Duchess of Devonshire

Soldiers of Fortune
England Goes to War:-- first hand accounts from the front lines

Fashions of the Regency Period
Some readily available works on period fashion.

The Jane Austen Cookbooks
A selection of Regency Era Cookbooks, etc.

Women's Lives in Georgian England
A look at travel and leisure

The Faces of Jane
A comparison of two Jane Austen biographies

A Time for War
The Duke of Wellington, plus The Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792-1815

Jane Austen's Christmas:
The Festive Season in Georgian England

The Janeites
A new look at some of Austen's staunchest supporters.

The Mirror of Graces
By A Lady of Distinction, 1811