Marriage Guidance
Not that long ago I quoted from a 1970s guide for couples preparing for marriage. Apparently such guides are nothing new:Tweet WidgetFacebook LikeGoogle Plus OneYou are not watching this post, click to...
View ArticlePassing: Identifying Dragons
Like Aliette de Bodard, I have recently finished reading Rachel Hartman's Seraphina, a fantasy novel with romantic elements. Unlike her, I enjoyed it. Now that could be because, unlike her, I did not...
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Heyer's Here
My article about Georgette Heyer is out now in the latest issue of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.Tweet WidgetFacebook LikeGoogle Plus OneYou are not watching this post, click to start...
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History and an Emotional Revolution
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Strong Women
I'm probably going to be moving house soon, which means I'll have to part with quite a few of my books.Tweet WidgetFacebook LikeGoogle Plus OneYou are not watching this post, click to start...
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Nell Gwyn: History Shaped by Romance
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Review/Summary (2 - Katherine Morrissey): Women and Erotic Fiction, ed....
Katherine E. Morrissey'sTweet WidgetFacebook LikeGoogle Plus OneYou are not watching this post, click to start watchingread more
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Part II - Representations of Romantic Relationships and the Romance Genre in...
Continued from Part I. In this post I'm summarising the following 3 papers:Tweet WidgetFacebook LikeGoogle Plus OneYou are not watching this post, click to start watchingread more
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Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen (ed. Jonathan A. Allan,...
I was sent a copy of Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen (ed. Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr) around Christmas but I waited till after New Year to take a...
View ArticleNew Page on this Site: Politics and the Past in Historical Romance Fiction
In case anyone's following this blog via a feedreader, I thought I'd mention here that I've just put up a new page elsewhere on this site (the topic was a bit long to be just a blog post) about...
View ArticlePillaging the Past for Contemporary Enjoyment
In Alex Beecroft's Blue Eyed Stranger (2015) one of the heroes, Martin, is a history teacher and historical reenactor whose "mother’s a Yorkshirewoman, my father’s from the Sudan" (61). Historical...
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