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GCSE English Literature · key term
The period from 1811 to 1820 when the Prince Regent exercised royal powers because George III was too ill to rule; the term also describes a broader cultural period around these years.
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Paper 1
Revise: ContextPride and Prejudice was published in 1813, during the official Regency of 1811–1820. George III was too ill to exercise royal powers, so his son governed as Prince Regent. However, Austen first drafted the novel in the 1790s: its social world belongs to the wider late-Georgian period, not simply to the years of the official Regency.
Paper 2
The period when George, Prince of Wales, carried out royal duties because George III was ill, officially 1811–1820. The term also describes the wider social and cultural world around these years.
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Austen published the novel in 1813, during the Regency. Officially, this lasted from 1811 to 1820, when George, Prince of Wales, acted as Prince Regent because his father, George III, was too ill to carry out royal duties. The novel’s social world belongs more broadly to late Georgian and Regency England; its nineteenth-century publication does not make it Victorian.
Component 2
The period from 1811 to 1820 when the Prince Regent exercised royal functions during George III’s illness; the term also describes the surrounding cultural period.
Revise: ContextPride and Prejudice was published in 1813, during the Regency. The official Regency lasted from 1811 to 1820: George III was too ill to perform his royal duties, so his son governed as Prince Regent. He became George IV in 1820.
