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's preface explains that she first set this novel in what was then the present day: the pre-Reform-Bill, pre-railway era. She did not wish to update it in revising, so it is now set...
Timeline
9 June 1812
The Earl of Liverpool
became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval
.
10 April 1827
George Canning
, a Tory, became Prime Minister after Lord Liverpool
had a stroke.