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It's real Regency Cant. You can even get a dictionary Most of it is obvious to readers here and plenty is obvious from context. But certainly she was proud of her research, had a library of about 1000 books on the subject and even bought a letter written by Wellington.
I agree there are some info dumps because they are not replicas of actual Regency era novels, but humorous adventure-romances set in the era. Iv'e read fantasy & SF with worse info dumps, that unlike Hayer's, are technobabble or otherwise fantasy.
Getting the balance of regional, slang or historic usage in a novel is hard. Also depends on the ethnic-regional background of the reader and the time gap between writing and reading. I've found plenty of older (but contemporaneous at the time published) USA books hard to read at times. Grammar, vocabulary and things less understandable than British or Irish books of the period (1850s to 1950s).
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