Elizabeth Bailey

Elizabeth Bailey writes historical romance shaped by Regency manners, social expectation, and comic reversals. Friday Dreaming follows a bookish young woman whose long-held hopes appear fulfilled when her childhood friend proposes, only for the uneasy circumstances behind the offer to test both loyalty and judgment. The novel first appeared through Mills & Boon in 1994 and remains part of Bailey's broad historical list. Her author materials place it alongside titles such as The Viscount Besieged, Mademoiselle at Arms, and The Count's Charade. Her list extends to mystery fiction, plays, and nonfiction, but her Regency stories are especially associated with courtship plots in which a central woman must distinguish genuine regard from appearance and convention.