The Accomplished Young Lady is a free browser game set in the Regency. You play a gentlewoman of decent family being educated at home for her first season in London, and each accomplishment a young lady of the period was expected to have, from etiquette and deportment to the pianoforte, dancing, needlework, drawing, and modern languages, is its own small game. The Etiquette and Deportment lesson is playable now. A strict, witty governess takes you through an eleven-slide curriculum in Regency manners and then examines you with a series of social-disaster scenarios, scoring your Reputation, Charm, and Wit and giving you a recognisable Austen-heroine ending. The Dancing lesson is also playable, a rhythm game set to four real Regency country-dance tunes. The Dress and Presentation lesson is playable too, a wardrobe game in which you dress the young lady correctly for a morning at home, an afternoon promenade, and an evening assembly, and take the governess's verdict on each outfit. The Speech and Conversation lesson is playable as well, a flashcard drill that swaps modern slang for proper Regency phrasing followed by a short drawing-room quiz. The French and Modern Languages lesson works the same way, flashcards for the French phrases polite society used and a short quiz on placing them. The Examination of Air and Manner is playable too, a five-part finishing-school program drawn from Caroline Bingley's list, with a short lecture and a scenario trial for each of air and manner, tone of voice, address, expressions, and the certain something, and the five marks folding into one grade for the player's air. The pianoforte and the rest of the curriculum are still in development and will be added to this page as they are finished. No sign up or download is required.
A Jane Austen Game
Step into the slippers of a Regency gentlewoman preparing for her first London season. Inspired by Caroline Bingley’s iconic list of female accomplishments, The Accomplished Young Lady turns historical deportment, music, and etiquette into interactive mini-games. Your performance directly shapes your reputation, dowry leverage, and suitor pool. Master the arts to capture a premier match, or blunder your way into total social exile. How well you do in this will determine if you marry a Prince, a Viscount or you end up in a life of Spinsterhood.
Before We Begin
She will want to know how you are to be addressed before she takes you in hand.
The Governess' Plan for You
Some lessons are still being set up, and each piece will appear here as it's finished. Your marks are below
A sharp, exasperated governess takes you through 11 slides of Regency manners, from posture and the curtsy to forms of address, ballroom rules, the morning call, glove propriety, the language of the fan, and the rules of correspondence. Then she examines you. React to 8 social disasters!
A young lady changes her clothes 3 or 4 times a day, and every change has rules. Dress her for a morning at home, an afternoon promenade, and an evening assembly, choosing the gown, the neckwear, the headwear, and the gloves, then take the governess's verdict on each outfit before she is allowed out of the room.
Your governess calls for the dancing master's tunes. Take the floor to 4 real Regency country dances, from slow "Mr. Beveridge's Maggot" to the racing "Tythe Pig", keep the steps in time the length of a full set, build a streak, and take her verdict on your dancing.
You have picked up 13 words the governess will not have said in her drawing room. Flip through her flashcards to learn what a lady says instead of awesome, snob, ghosted, broke, and the rest, then put three modern sentences right in the drawing room and take her verdict.
A little French in the right place is part of a lady's air, and in the wrong place it is worse than none. Flip the governess's flashcards for the 6 phrases polite society actually used, from entre nous to hors de question, then place them in three sentences and take her verdict.
Caroline Bingley's other list, the one you cannot practise at a keyboard. Five short lessons and trials on a lady's air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address, her expressions, and the certain something behind all of it. Five marks that fold into one.
Every accomplished young lady is judged, in part, by her hand at the instrument. Play real Regency dance tunes on a proper keyboard! This is a game where you will need to practice like Georgina Darcy.
A grid-based cross-stitch samplers. Still being cut out and pinned.
You've sat every lesson. The governess has closed her book and made her verdict, below.
The Governess's Book
Sit a lesson and your marks appear here.
Not happy with a mark? Sit it again
The Season Is Over
The Accomplished Young Lady
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The finished game folds them all into one Austen-heroine ending. Marks are saved on this device until you reset them.