Books
30 Best Novels About the Georgian Era
Bestselling authors first, then star rating.
Period
Georgian Era
1714–1830 CE
The Georgian Era begins with the Hanoverian Succession in 1714 and runs through the reigns of the first four Georges. It was an age of parliamentary politics, aristocratic patronage, imperial rivalry, urban expansion and new forms of consumer culture. The country house, the assembly room, the theatre, the newspaper and the coffee house became important stages for power and reputation.
Britain grew wealthier and more globally connected, but that prosperity rested on deep inequalities at home and abroad. The era brought financial speculation, religious tension, criminal underworlds, anti-Catholic agitation, abolitionist campaigning and early industrial transformation. It created a society where status, credit, gender and birth could determine a person’s chances as sharply as law or violence.
Georgian settings suit the social precision of Jane Austen and Frances Burney, the romantic confidence of Georgette Heyer, and darker recent fiction such as Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Blood & Sugar and Antonia Hodgson’s Thomas Hawkins novels. Stacey Halls’s The Foundling and Susan Stokes-Chapman’s Pandora also use Georgian London as a world of institutions, commerce and secrets. Series set here can move easily between drawing rooms, docks, courts, prisons, pleasure gardens and provincial estates.
Related people for Georgian Era
Allan Breck Stewartc. 1722–c. 1791 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Beau Brummell1778–1840 Caroline of Ansbach1683–1737 Catherine Blake1762–1831 Charles Edward Stuart1720–1788 Charles II of England1630–1685 Charles James Fox1749–1806 Colin Roy Campbell of Glenurec. 1708–1752 George III1738–1820 George IV of the United Kingdom1762–1830 George Washington1732–1799 Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882 Horatio Nelson1758–1805 Hyder Ali1720–1782 James Mor MacGregorc. 1695–1754 James Stewart of the Glenc. 1698–1752 John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee1648–1689 John Moore1761–1809 Lord George Gordon1751–1793 Louis XIV1638–1715 Louis XV of France1710–1774 Napoleon1769–1821 Philip Astley1742–1814 Prince William, Duke of Cumberland1721–1765 Richard Brinsley Sheridan1751–1816 Robert Clive1725–1774 Rob Roy MacGregor1671–1734 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald1775–1860 Tipu Sultan1751–1799 Victoria1819–1901 William Blake1757–1827 William Grant, Lord Prestongrange1701–1764 William Pitt the Younger1759–1806
Non Fiction
7 Non-Fiction Books About the Georgian Era
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
