Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency Geneva Lee Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing

Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother

including Lara’s homeland

desire flares into passion

I’ve been hunting souls for centuries

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency Geneva Lee Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growingDiscover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history until now. Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white,