Thanks for the info, I am already familiar with Joan Wolf and Barbara Metzger.But will definitely check out the others mentioned.(New authors to be added to be read list..Woohoo)

One another author who is really impressive is Carla Kelly, because her regencies deal with the major issues of the Regency period.

Most of these authors started at Signet writing traditional regencies which usually did not include any (or very little) sex in the story. Of the authors here I can recommend Joan Smith, Barbara Metzger, Patricia Wynn, Laura Matthews, Joan Wolf and Sheri Cobb South.

Good Ton – http://www.thenonesuch.com/ – is another site packed with information about the older, trad style, books.

This is a review site I recently stumbled upon that might offer some other title suggestions. http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/retroread.htm#all

Can you people recommend any more authors similar to Joan Smith, with clean and good Regency stories.

I, too, would recommend “Rose Trelawney.” Two other similar adventure stories that I loved were “Endure My Heart” and “Minuet.” But for witty repartee, I think “Talk of the Town” and “Imprudent Lady” were two of her best.

Sigh. I love Joan Smith. Did I already mention that?

In it, our heroine, suffering from amnesia, ends up at the local lord’s house because as she retorts to a famous gossip .. ” it was commonly said he was richer..(than the curate.)

Apparantly unaware stray amnesiacs should be modest, humble, helpful etc. she sets about redecorating, throwing parties and ordering her host family around.

I’ve re-read it countless times.