![]() The political Regency lasted until 1820, when George IV was crowned. The Regency officially began in 1811, when King George III went permanently insane and his son George, Prince of Wales, was sanctioned to rule England in his place as Regent. The precariousness of the late eighteenth-century was followed in the 1810s and 1820s by what is known as the Regency period. ![]() ![]() Among the effects of England’s foreign wars during this period were great financial instability and monetary volatility. For the next two decades, Britain was engaged almost without cease in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793–1815, one of the most significant conflicts in British history. The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the year after Austen’s birth, signaled the start of the American Revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. Jane Austen’s brief life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution abroad and unrest at home. Late Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Regency Period (Wikimedia Commons) Austen's short life encompassed the "madness of King George," the American and French revolutions and the Battle of Waterloo. ![]() Portrait of George III (1738–1820) by Sir William Beechey, 1820. ![]()
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