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British women of the Regency era (1811-1820 or, more broadly, 1795-1837). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A. Jane Austen (8 C, 39 P)
This is a list of current and former female monarchs regardless of title, including queens regnant, empresses regnant, pharaohs and monarchs by other titles (grand duchess, princess, etc.). Consorts, such queens consort (i.e. spouses of male monarchs) are not included, see list of current consorts of sovereigns.
This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library, where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century. Mezzotint, printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett ...
This is a list of female hereditary monarchs who reigned over a political jurisdiction in their own right or by right of inheritance. The list does not include female regents (see List of regents), usually the mother of the monarch, male or female, for although they exercised political power during the period of regency on behalf of their child or children, they were not hereditary monarch ...
**The related era and style are commonly referred to as the Régence (analogous to the British Regency period). A 136 carat (27.2 g) diamond he acquired in 1717 is known as 'le régent' Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence , while living in exile, self-declared regent for his nephew Louis XVII of France after the 1793 guillotining of King ...
For a more complete listing, which adds these "hidden" Marquessates as well as extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, and forfeit ones, see List of marquessates in the peerages of Britain and Ireland. They were a relatively late introduction to the British peerage, and on the evening of the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the Prime Minister ...
Inspired by the hit Netflix series "Bridgerton," here are 30 Regency era dating rules, including love letter etiquette and rules for the Season's biggest balls.
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.