San Antonio College Library

"The Regency era in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811?when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, the Prince of Wales, ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent?and 1820, when the Prince Regent became George IV on the death of his father."--Wikipedia.

Brownstein offers readings of the classics from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf and reflects on the ties binding women readers to literary heroines. Her thesis is that the typical heroine-centered novel encourages girls to see themselves in literary terms, as central characters in their own stories. She discusses Pamela, Clarissa, novels of Austen and Charlotte Bronte, The Egoist, Daniel Deronda, The Potrait of a Lady and Mrs. Dalloway.

"Avrom Fleishman's "The English Historical Novel" provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel".--Harriet Gilliam, "Clio".