Mad and Bad : Real Heroines of the Regency
by
Bea Koch
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1538701014
ISBN-13
9781538701010
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Imprint
Grand Central Publishing
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 17th, 2020
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
248 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 20.30 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
British & Irish historyGender studies: women and girlsGender studies: womenEuropean history
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A feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight iconoclastic women of the Regency period who succeeded on their own terms and have largely been lost to history.
Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history—until now.
"Romance novel readers, Austenites, and Byronheads will love delving into the truth behind the aesthetics they've long adored."― Tori Telfer, author of Lady Killers
Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white, Christian members of the upper classes.
But there are hundreds of fascinating women who don't fit history books' limited perception of what was historically accurate for early 19th century England. Women like Dido Elizabeth Belle, whose mother was a slave but was raised by her white father's family in England, Caroline Herschel, who acted as her brother's assistant as he hunted the heavens for comets, and ended up discovering eight on her own, Anne Lister, who lived on her own terms with her common-law wife at Shibden Hall, and Judith Montefiore, a Jewish woman who wrote the first English language Kosher cookbook.
Bea Koch, one of the owners of the romance-only bookstore The Ripped Bodice, takes the Regency era and reveals the independent-minded, standard-breaking real historical women who lived life on their terms. She also examines broader questions of culture in chapters that focus on the LGBTQ and Jewish communities, the lives of women of color in the Regency, and women who broke barriers in fields like astronomy and paleontology.
In Mad and Bad, we look beyond popular perception of the Regency into the even more vibrant, diverse, and fascinating historical truth.
"I can only hope that Bea Koch decides to give us more books like this. With this book, she shines a spotlight on a group of women who deserve to live as more than footnotes in history ... This is a book that deserves all the attention it can get." ―Culturess
"Koch vividly shines light on the queer, Jewish and women of color who have long been overlooked." ―Ms. Magazine
"Romance novel readers, Austenites, and Byronheads will love delving into the truth behind the aesthetics they've long adored."― Tori Telfer, author of Lady Killers
Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white, Christian members of the upper classes.
But there are hundreds of fascinating women who don't fit history books' limited perception of what was historically accurate for early 19th century England. Women like Dido Elizabeth Belle, whose mother was a slave but was raised by her white father's family in England, Caroline Herschel, who acted as her brother's assistant as he hunted the heavens for comets, and ended up discovering eight on her own, Anne Lister, who lived on her own terms with her common-law wife at Shibden Hall, and Judith Montefiore, a Jewish woman who wrote the first English language Kosher cookbook.
Bea Koch, one of the owners of the romance-only bookstore The Ripped Bodice, takes the Regency era and reveals the independent-minded, standard-breaking real historical women who lived life on their terms. She also examines broader questions of culture in chapters that focus on the LGBTQ and Jewish communities, the lives of women of color in the Regency, and women who broke barriers in fields like astronomy and paleontology.
In Mad and Bad, we look beyond popular perception of the Regency into the even more vibrant, diverse, and fascinating historical truth.
"I can only hope that Bea Koch decides to give us more books like this. With this book, she shines a spotlight on a group of women who deserve to live as more than footnotes in history ... This is a book that deserves all the attention it can get." ―Culturess
"Koch vividly shines light on the queer, Jewish and women of color who have long been overlooked." ―Ms. Magazine
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