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Re: Historical fiction pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Re: the Regency era, it bugs me a little when people don't seem to understand that the social rules of etiquette were very different back then. Austen touches upon some of it, but doesn't explicitly list what they are because her audience already knew it. This is particularly true re: the role of women - for the upper class, a young, unmarried woman doesn't visit a young, unmarried man at his house. They don't correspond by letter unless they're related, or it's in secret (and then you have to work out how that's done). People communicated via letters and in-person visits, that was a near-daily part of your social life even if you were a homebody. Class structure was a lot more rigid. Going around calling people you don't know well by their first name generally wasn't done and might even be seen as an insult. This is particularly true if the two people were from different social classes, so a footman would not be calling the Duke of Such-and-such by his first name.

IMO, part of the fun of a Regency era story is working within those more stringent guidelines and how it changes the story and relationships, so when people don't bother to follow them at all, it just feels like a modern story with gowns and dances.