Anna Harrington – Featured Beau Monde Author

Today’s featured Beau Monde author is Anna Harrington!

Anna Harrington is an author of spicy Regency romance with dashing heroes and independent heroines, layers of emotion, and lots of sizzle. She fell in love with historical romances and all things Regency while living in England, where she spent most of her time reading Jane Austen and getting lost in London (especially the getting lost part). Anna has traveled around the world, both as a tourist and as a volunteer with children’s organizations in Peru, Ecuador, Thailand, and Mexico. She loves to hike and fly airplanes, adores all things chocolate and coffee, and is a Doctor Who fanatic (everyone says her house *is* bigger on the inside!). Anna claims to be a terrible cook who hopes to one day use her oven for something other than shoe storage. In her spare time, Anna enjoys gardening and growing roses. Her fav authors are Elizabeth Hoyt, Sabrina Jeffries, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, and Sylvia Day.

What do you love best/interests you most about the Regency Era?
Anna says she’s fascinated most by the Napoleonic Wars, especially those of the Peninsular Wars, the period architecture, and medical advances (or lack of them). Although life changed during this period, in many respects this was a last “static” period before the social and economic upheaval of the Victorian age. For most people, Regency life was closer to how Shakespeare lived than how the Victorians lived just twenty years later, when life seemed to change every day and society had to race to keep up. Compared to the Victorians, the Regency Era was holding its breath, with anticipation of all that change lingering just beneath its surface. It’s electric, and you can actually feel that rising tension in the contemporary events and writings.

What do you like the most about the Beau Monde Chapter? How long have you been a member?
What Anna likes best is that we are a group of writers who all have a thirst for history and learning all that we can about the Regency Era—and doing so optimistically. We’re so very supportive of each other, and there isn’t a lot of that “I’m right, you’re wrong” mentality that permeates so many other historically focused groups, author or academic. Anna just learned about the chapter last year before RWA and immediately joined. The mini-conference was the best day she had at RWA, and she can’t wait to attend more. (She also wants to apologize to everyone at the conference for her dancing. Next time she will be able to tell her left foot from her right. She promises.)

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You can find Anna Harrington online in the following places:
Website: http://www.AnnaHarringtonBooks.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/annaharrington.regencywriter/
Twitter: @aharrington2875E