Editing Regency era (section)

=== Periodisation terminology ===

Officially, the Regency began on 5 February 1811 and ended on 29 January 1820 but the "Regency era", as such, is generally perceived to have been much longer. The term is commonly, though loosely, applied to the period from {{circa|1795}} until the accession of [[Queen Victoria]] on 20 June 1837.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dabundo |first1=Laura |last2=Mazzeno |first2=Laurence W. |last3=Norton |first3=Sue |title=Jane Austen: A Companion |date=2021 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5cuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA177 |pages=177–179 |isbn=978-1-4766-4238-3}}</ref> The Regency Era is a sub-period of the longer [[Georgian era]] (1714–1837), both of which were followed by the [[Victorian era]] (1837–1901). The latter term had contemporaneous usage although some historians give it an earlier startpoint, typically the enactment of the [[Great Reform Act]] on 7 June 1832.<ref name="Plunkett">{{cite book |editor1-last=Plunkett |editor1-first=John |display-editors=etal |title=Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook| date=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Houndmills, Basingstoke |page=2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Sadleir |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Sadleir |title=Trollope: A Commentary |publisher=Constable & Co. |year=1927 |pages=17–30}}</ref><ref name="hewitt2006">{{cite journal |last=Hewitt |first=Martin |title=Why the Notion of Victorian Britain Does Make Sense |journal=Victorian Studies |date=Spring 2006 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=395–438 |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/article/204106 |access-date=23 May 2017 |doi=10.2979/VIC.2006.48.3.395 |s2cid=143482564 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030004144/http://muse.jhu.edu/article/204106 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}</ref>