In What Year Is Netflix’s Period Piece ‘Bridgerton’ Set?

Literary scholar Diana Wallace explained that Georgette’s popular novels helped “centralize female subjectivity, desires, and apprehensions to an unusual extent.”

More current “Regency-set” works, like the seductive Bridgerton novels, see a sensationalized shift, however. According to librarians and authors Neal Wyatt, Georgine Olson, Kristin Ramsdell, Joyce Saricks, and Lynne Welch, this fresh approach to Regency romance is “bolder, sexier, more adventurous, and less restricted.”