'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not
to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read,
pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who
kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose
story shocked the world Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who
fought for women's rights Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who
built paradise in a Welsh valley 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know'
is how Lord Byron, the poet who drank wine from a monk's skull and
slept with his half-sister, was described by one of his many
lovers. But 'mad, bad and dangerous' serves as a good description
for the entire Georgian period: often neglected, the hundred or so
years between the coronation of George I in 1714 and the death of
George IV in 1830 were years when the modern world was formed, and
changes came thick and fast. Across this century, new foods -
pineapples, coffee and pepper - suddenly became available in the
shops. Fashion exploded into a riot of colour, frilly shirts and
wigs. Gin was drunk like it was water. Demands for women's rights
were heard, and it became possible to question the existence of God
without fear of prompt execution. These exciting new developments
came, of course, from the expanding British Empire. Britain's
wealth and its sudden access to chocolate, chillies and spices, was
entirely bound up with the conquest of overseas territories and the
miserable suffering of enslaved workers. This is the backdrop to
Robert Peal's new book, which introduces the Georgian era through
the diverse lives of twelve 'magnificent - if not moral' people who
defined it.
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