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John Hertz, c/o program

The English Regency period (roughly the year 1800) appeals to the fannish heart. It was colorful, whimsical, and loved the light touch. For years we've been holding Regency ballroom dances at science fiction conventions. We'll do it some more at L.A.con IV.

You can come in costume, or come as you are. You don't have to know how to dance. I'll teach you.

This was the age of Jane Austen and Lord Byron, of Napoleon, "Beau" Brummell, and the Congress of Vienna. The Prince Regent kept a set of Jane Austen's books at his bedside, bless him.

Many of us were first intoxicated by the historical romance novels set in this time by the 20th Century Englishwoman Georgette Heyer.

In Nicki & Rich Lynch's fanzine Mimosa (no. 26, reprinted in no. 29), I tried to explain, with an article "The English Regency and Me". Really I did.

John Hertz