The Bridgerton series is set in London, England during the Regency Era, 1811-1820.
This era had a cultural shift with the flourishing artists Beethoven, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth expressing the romantic movement.
So of course it’s only appropriate to have a fictional romance series fixed to this era.
The art, music, architecture, and literature from the Regency Era was inspired and poured right into the world of Bridgerton.
But who really lived during that time, you ask? Well for starters King George IV ruled from 1820-1830, while his father “Mad King George” was incapacitated and then eventually died. But believe it or not, there were some very impactful women alive during the time as well.
One of the most important characters of the Regency Era was Jane Austen as listed above. Within this period, Jane Austen wrote the entirety of her six published novels.
Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace was a genius with numbers and also happened to be Lord Byron’s wife. She had big dreams for engineering, mathematics, and science. And her dreams took her far because her calculated sequences of Bernoulli numbers on the machine is seen as the first computer program.
Mary Shelley whose mother wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman wrote her very own novel, a gothic, called Frankenstein. She was one of the earliest publications of science fiction and went down in history as a famous English romance novelist.
Jane Marcet was a trailblazer because of her bravery and determination in educating the women around her. She wrote science books for women because she believed women could have other interests outside of their daily housework and artistic interests. Marcet attended chemistry lectures with her husband.
Last but not least, Madame Tussaud made a stamp on society. Marie Tussaud was adopted by a Swiss doctor named Phillipe Curtis who made successful wax models for the medical industry. During the French Revolution, Curtis taught her how to make wax figures and run his waxwork business. Marie and Phillipe went on to make wax sculptures in Paris of the royal family, prisoners, and the dead that had been guillotined. In 1802 after the passing of Phillipe, Marie moved to London with her exhibition and later made it a permanent fixture in London.
