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Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen

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Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen

Hillary Burlock, University of Liverpool The ballrooms of Jane Austen’s Britain have been hailed in literature and period…

byHillary Burlock

December 11, 2025