Talk:British Regency

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[edit] Page title dispute

I'm going to put this back at "English Regency", simply because (a) that's what it has been commonly known as, and we tend to go for "most common usage" by preference; and (b) because it differentiates the period in UK history from any other type of regency. Thus, I recommend this page NOT be moved to "Regency". -- April 22:17 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)

Why is this the 'English' Regency when it was also the regency in Scotland and Ireland? -- IP 86.132.4.240, 01:10, 2 April 2006
Good question -- many people would unconsciously assume that London was setting the social trends, but actually the Scottish enlightenment was still going pretty strong then. (However, Ireland was in a sad state at that time.) In any case, the term as it is used today is more social than it is strictly political, and "English Regency" is probably the most commonly-occurring form (other than just plain "Regency"). Churchh 05:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
The title of this page is English Regency, however this is not at all correct, as the Regent was not only so of England but of all the UK, and in the intrests of correctness this should be changed to the more appropriate British Regency

The above comment was made at the top of the article at 07:50, 20 August 2007 by User:George Pinkerton. I moved the comment here to the discussion page and placed it under the appropriate heading. Laura1822 21:14, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I was shocked to find this page at "English" Regency. It is quite wrong to suggest that this is the common terminology. As well as being misleading to the reader, it is insulting to non-English residents of Britain. Deb (talk) 18:00, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regency clothing styles

There seems to be basically nothing at all on English Wikipedia on Regency fashions, except for a very brief mention of Regency men's clothing styles at the end of Regency architecture (though it's women's clothing styles which the period is most noted for). I'll try to start an article, though it probably won't be much at first. Churchh 03:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah, found one that's at least semi-relevant: Empire silhouette, though it's sorely lacking in pictures. Churchh 03:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Go for it; I felt that way about Elizabethan clothes when I got here and now look at me... as I have said elsewhere, I'd like to see Wikipedia's articles on clothes to be as comprehensive and authoritative as its articles on botany.
Feel free to start an article Regency fashion (a la Victorian fashion) if you like and link it to the logical places. Holler if you need help with pictures. PKM 06:15, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Now started up at 1795-1820 in fashion (much still to do). Churchh 19:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DICKENS SHOULD BE LISTED

Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist were published prior to Victoria ascending the throne. Moreoever, even the later novels are set in the Regency period -- ie. the period of Dicken's own childhood. Thus, in David Copperfield, when the King's health is drunk, it is George IV who is meant.

68.8.171.83 02:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

The Pickwick papers were published during the transition from William IV to Victoria, 16 years or so after the end of the formal legal Regency. Dickens has his historical novels (i.e. pre 19th-century), his pre-railway novels (set in the early 19th-century), and his railway novels (i.e. set more or less contemporaneously in the period when they were published), but to my mind his pre-railway novels do not have a strong flavor of Regency England, and it's hard for me to say in what sense Dickens was really a "Regency writer"... Churchh 12:47, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jane Austen

She's famous now, but she actually wasn't that widely publicly known at the time. Churchh 12:52, 17 October 2007 (UTC)