Run Away to the Circus... Regency Style!

Bring a Boxer to His Knees (release date August 2022!) features a circus strongman/boxer as the hero and a burgeoning circus sharpshooter/trick rider as a heroine.

Basically, it's fun times, and it required some super fun research. Below is a list of links I've used to research: Astley's Amphitheater, Regency era pistols, nineteenth-century strongmen and boxers!

Astley's Amphitheater

• http://www.avictorian.com/astleys.html

• https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-story-of-circus#slideshow=58613815&slide=0

• https://www.regencylookingglass.com/2018/01/astleys-royal-amphitheatre-first-circus.html

Strongmen

• https://www.history.com/news/strongest-men-in-history-most-famous-feats

• https://legendarystrength.com/thomas-topham/

Boxing

• http://www.reginascott.com/box.htm (details of boxing as well as social customs surrounding it)

• http://historicalromanceuk.blogspot.com/2012/03/regency-boxing.html (boxers could make anywhere from 50 pounds to two thousand pound purses! But was a lucrative trade.)

Pistols

• https://thebeaumonde.com/main/the-flintlock-the-pistol-and-the-shotgun-of-the-regency-by-donna-hatch/

• https://reginajeffers.blog/2020/05/01/mantons-shooting-gallery-and-the-man-who-changed-weaponry-during-the-regency/