A question on the Regency period?

Question

I have always been confused about this thing that I come often across in both my writings and readings set in the 18th century England.

In these Regency books, authors use: Drawing room, sitting room, and a saloon which include like....ex.) Blue saloon, red saloon, green saloon, etc.,

Are these (drawing room, sitting room, saloon)all the same?? If not, what are the differences and when do the people use these rooms?? And also, what's up with the "blue saloon, red saloon, green saloon, etc.,"??

Or, in my writing, can I simply, and easily, refer to everything as the sitting room?? Like, the guests wait in the sitting room, the tea is taken in the sitting room, the people read and knit or whatever in the sitting room???

One last question, in sitting room and drawing room the same??

PLEASE try to answer all my questions if you can T_T

Answer 1

These are huge houses and many rooms had the same purpose to differentiate which room it is you call it by its distinctive feature, such as the Wedgwood room, or the green room (a room who's predominate colour is green). With no TV you sat in the sitting room and received guests, which was one of the big past times of the age. A withdrawing (abbreviated to drawing room) room was where originally the ladies withdrew after having dinner with the men, so the men could drink port, smoke cigars and talk male matters. In this period it was teh women who withdrew not the men.
A saloon was often were artistic events took place music or a picture gallery
Castle Howard (Yorkshire, it is a grand house not a castle) takes about half an hour to walk through all the lower floor rooms.

http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/metadot/index.pl?id=2424&isa=Category&op=show

If you look at the internal picture (second from the top) you can see they are in a gallery ( a gallery would be a long room , with windows and or colums and often with furniture) and behind that another room, and perhaps another 30 rooms, to communicate locations you need to tell the difference between these rooms. Hence the descriptions: There were breakfast rooms, card rooms and many others. Castle Howard has a summer house called the temple of the four winds which is a grand edifice of marble and dramatic design proceeded by an avenue of statues and it overlooks an artificial lake, all this just to have a short walk and some where to rest for 20 minutes

A sitting room and a drawing room could be the same room depending on the size of the house depending on the use at the time; in a grand house they would be different rooms. Obviously it has to be near the dinning room.

You could use the just a drawing room but that would not be for one of the great houses such as a ducal house. The wealth and how life was lived on a grand scale is beyond anything other than how the Queen lives now.

In your writing you should be aware of the historical events preceding the regency period and those contemporaneous with the year you book is set. Napoleon was with out doubt the major influence, this is refected in the females clothing and regency style as well as the effect of the psyche on the British. Today the Martello towers dot the English coast line and the Victory is still the flagship of one of the English fleets. Wesley was "the"
national hero and exerted great influence into the regency period. Neapolitan was going to invade Britain and dug huge canals in what was to become Belgium to secure them, but to no avail.
Jane Austin was contemporaneous with the regency period and any one the excellent English versions ( not American) are impeccably researched costumed and set in regency houses. Lady Caroline Lamb would also give you an idea of what happens ifone went against the current mores and customs of the time. A history of Byron, Coleridge and Turner and the impact and consequences of the Napoleonic wars would also give you more depth to the historical setting of your stories. However visually the Jayne Austen British TV adaptations are a must. If you have any queries regarding this period feel free to email me.
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Answer 2

First of all, the Regency wasn't in the 18th century, it was from 1811-1820.
I don't know what a saloon is, but it seems to me a drawing room is where the men "withdraw to" after dinner, whereas the sitting room is more for female, more familiar, guests. A big house would have at least one of each and it might be rude of your fictional hosts not to invite their guests into the drawing room.

Answer 3

besides what other people have said they also had certain rooms that were just for family sitting rooms. Depending on the class of person (i.e. their title) that would depend on where they were sent to wait to make a call. Men and women each had their own areas from what I can tell also. I know that they authors do an enormous amount of research before they right a book. There should be books at the library that would help you with this information. I know their houses must have been huge to have all the different rooms that they speak of. Good luck

Answer 4

properly the e book skipped over the Napoleonic wars, that have been a substantial area of england at that component. i think of the e book did this to assist human beings forget approximately approximately harsh situations and to chill out. additionally in the e book you will see the super difference between the social instructions. it is obviously significant on the time. a marriage like Lizzy and Darcy's is very uncommon and extremely idealistic! human beings married extra for money than for romance, which we are able to be sure from Charlotte and Mr Collins. additionally, the little manners and social regulations that ruled that era have been significant. Darcy separated Jane from Bingley as a results of shame of Lizzy's own kin. Chasity before marriage became right into a substantial subject as a results of fact Lydia became into to be ruined as subsequently her working off with Wickham.