Editing Regency era (section)

=== Women's activities ===

During the Regency era and well into the succeeding Victorian era, society women were discouraged from exertion although many did take the opportunity to pursue activities such as dancing, riding and walking that were recreational rather than competitive. Depending on a lady's rank, she may be expected to be proficient in reading and writing, mathematics, dancing, music, sewing, and embroidery.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Halsey |first=Katie |date=2015-07-04 |title=The home education of girls in the eighteenth-century novel: 'the pernicious effects of an improper education' |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2015.1048113 |journal=Oxford Review of Education |language=en |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=430–446 |doi=10.1080/03054985.2015.1048113 |issn=0305-4985}}</ref> In ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', the Bennet sisters are frequently out walking and it is at a [[ball (dance party)|ball]] where [[Elizabeth Bennet|Elizabeth]] meets [[Mr Darcy]]. There was a contemporary belief that people had limited energy levels with women, as the "weaker sex", being most at risk of over-exertion because their menstruation cycles caused periodic energy reductions.<ref>[http://thesportjournal.org/article/a-history-of-women-in-sport-prior-to-title-ix/ ''A History of Women in Sport Prior to Title IX'']. Richard C. Bell (2018). ''The Sport Journal''. United States Sports Academy.</ref>