The Greatest Regency Romance Novels

In times when the constraining customs and public scrutiny prevailed, there were still female writers who wrote about the true nature of woman's passion. e-artnow presents to you the authentic regency books, the tales of love, lust, pleasure and betrayal:

Love in Excess (Eliza Haywood)

Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)

The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood)

Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)

Patronage (Maria Edgeworth)

Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Evelina (Fanny Burney)

Cecilia (Fanny Burney)

Camilla (Fanny Burney)

The Wanderer (Fanny Burney)

Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)

Emma (Jane Austen)

Persuasion (Jane Austen)

Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant)

Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant)

Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Pamela (Samuel Richardson)

Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood)

Shamela (Henry Fielding)