To Be Jewish and Wealthy in Regency London

Welcome Sara Adrien who brings the facts about Jewish families in the upper society of the Regency Era as they appear in her book, Margins of Love.

If you’ve read even a handful of Regency romances, you know the world well: Ballrooms—Dukes—Family names that carry centuries of entitlement. But what if I told you some of those polished exteriors hid something far more dangerous than flirtation?

In Margins of Love, Book One of the Infiltrating the Ton series, I explore a truth most period dramas have ignored: Jews were living among the British elite during the Regency era—wealthy, educated, well-dressed… and entirely invisible by design.

They weren’t fully accepted.
They weren’t fully safe.
And yet, they managed to carve out lives at the very edge of society’s spotlight.

Most of what we picture as “the ton” was closed to outsiders. Especially religious minorities. And yet—history tells us that a handful of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish families did, in fact, rise high enough to orbit this world. They operated under enormous pressure to stay silent, assimilate, and remain politically useful.

Their public lives sparkled.
Their private lives were carefully guarded. They had to be.

Some facts about their lives:

– Jewish financiers and jewelers were quietly essential to the crown and the aristocracy, handling loans, rare gems, and international trade. They were invited to drawing rooms, but not always acknowledged in print.

– Kosher observance often had to be disguised. Food was prepared behind closed doors, Sabbaths were celebrated in hidden rooms, and Hebrew texts were kept locked away. To break cover was to risk reputation—and even deportation.

– Marrying outside the faith came with enormous risk. Not just religious, but financial, familial, and cultural. And yet love—stubborn, inconvenient love—happened anyway.

– Silence was a tool of survival. Families trained their children to blend in, but never to forget who they were. The cost of being seen could be everything.

In Margins of Love, Rachel and Fave are caught in this very tension—drawn to each other, but surrounded by layers of misunderstanding, social danger, and ancestral burden. What if the person you loved was hiding the one truth that could set you free?

That’s the question at the heart of the Infiltrating the Ton series.

About the Book

Feivel “Fave” Pearler is everything the Ton admires: rich, refined, and relentlessly charming. But behind his perfect reputation lies a dangerous secret—one that could unravel his life and his family’s future if discovered. If he risks his family’s secret, he could lose everything they’ve built — and his dream of becoming Crown Jeweler would vanish.

Rachel Newman is done playing by society’s rules. As a spirited debutante with no interest in marrying for duty, she wants love — even if it comes at a scandalous cost. But falling for Fave Pearler isn’t just a rebellion. It’s a risk with devastating consequences.

When a blackmailer threatens to expose everything—their secrets, their desire, their truth—they’re forced to choose: preserve their lives apart… or risk everything for a chance at love.

What begins as an impossible courtship becomes a story of hidden identities, heartbreaking choices, and love that burns in the margins of what society allows.

It’s Regency romance—rooted in real history, full of longing, and written between the lines of what society allowed.

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