Victoria Ashbourne presents

The Regency Reading Room

The lives, the books and the surprising stories of the writers who made the Regency the home of the love story.

Jane Austen

Her life from Steventon to Chawton, her six novels in order, and twelve things you may not know.

Read about Jane Austen

The real places behind the Kinsale Chronicles

Kinsale, the Burren, the Aran Islands, Galway, Connemara and the Shannon, then and now.

Explore the places

More writers coming soon: Georgette Heyer, Fanny Burney and Maria Edgeworth.

The Regency Reading Room is written by Regency romance author Victoria Ashbourne. Book suggestions on these pages include her own novels.