Rory Muir's comprehensive, elegant, and incisive book will delight readers by shedding new light on a subject that we thought we knew everything about, but didn't.-Paula Byrne, author of The Real Jane Austen
An insightful exploration of Regency hearts and their entanglements. Muir's elegant yet compassionate history vividly reveals the realities of love and marriage, along a spectrum from difficulty to delight.-Hilary Davidson, author of Jane Austen's Wardrobe