What is the Regency Era The Regency era in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811 and 1820 when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son the Prince of Wales ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent ID: 683719
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Life in the Regency Era
Pride and Prejudice Ch. 25-31Slide2
What is the Regency Era?
The
Regency era
in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811 and 1820, when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, the Prince of Wales, ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent. Slide3
Excess and Uncertainty
A time of excess for the aristocracy: for example, it was during this time that the Prince Regent built the Brighton Pavilion. Slide4
Excess and Uncertainty
An era of uncertainty caused by several factors including: the Napoleonic wars, periodic riots, and the concern (threat to some, hope to others) that the British people might imitate the upheavals of the French Revolution.Slide5
A Time of Excess
Upper class society flourished in a sort of mini-Renaissance of culture and refinement.
T
he Regent, and later, King's exuberance often outstripped his pocket, at the people's expense.
“This entertainment will cost 120,000 pounds. Nor will it be the last bauble which the nation must buy to amuse this overgrown bantling of Regency.“
--Percy Bysshe ShelleySlide6
A Time of Uncertainty
The squalor that existed beneath the glamour and gloss of Regency society provided sharp contrast to Prince Regent's social circle. Poverty was addressed only marginally.
In the dingier, less affluent areas of London, thievery, womanizing, gambling, the existence of rookeries, and constant drinking ran rampant
.Slide7
Caught Between Excess and Uncertainty
The gap in the hierarchy of society was so great that those of the upper classes could be viewed by those below as wondrous and fantastical fiction, something entirely out of reach yet tangibly there.Slide8
Timeline for the Regency Era
1811
George, Prince of Wales begins his nine-year tenure as regent and becomes known as The Prince Regent.
The Duke of Wellington holds off the French at Fuentes
d'Onoro
and
Albuhera
in the Peninsular War.
Luddite uprisings. Glasgow weavers riot.
1812
Shipping and territory disputes start the War of 1812 between England and the United States.
The British are victorious over French armies at the Battle of Salamanca.
The waltz is introduced from Europe into England.
1813
William Hedley's
Puffing Billy
, an early steam locomotive, runs on smooth rails.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen is published.
1814
Invasion of France by allies leads to the Treaty of Paris, ending one of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
British soldiers burn the White House.
Gas lighting introduced in London streets.
1815Napoleon I of France defeated by the Seventh Coalition at the Battle of Waterloo. John Loudon Macadam's road construction method adopted.Slide9
Timeline for the Regency Era
1816
A "year without a summer" follows a volcanic eruption in Indonesia.
Mary Shelley writes
Frankenstein
.
1817
Antonin
Carême
creates a spectacular feast for the Prince Regent at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
1818
Manchester cotton spinners' strike.
1819
Sir Stamford Raffles, a British administrator, founds Singapore.
First steam-propelled vessel (The
SS Savannah
) crosses the Atlantic and arrives in Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia.
Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott is published.
1820
Death of George III. Accession of The Prince Regent as George IV.
Royal Astronomical Society founded.