Regency Novel - Major Writers of Classic Regency Fiction

Major Writers of Classic Regency Fiction

  • Jane Austen (1775–1817)
  • Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849)
  • Susan Ferrier (1782–1854)
  • ETA Hoffman (1776–1822)
  • Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
  • Johann David Wyss (1743–1818)

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