tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post3383274872949190603..comments2024-03-28T12:00:29.857+00:00Comments on Historical and Regency Romance UK: Restrictions and Parameters in writing historical romanceLouise Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09895724319451189592noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-85572911422725923902017-10-29T15:55:19.834+00:002017-10-29T15:55:19.834+00:00I'm sure you are right, Beth, about the forcef...I'm sure you are right, Beth, about the forceful females. Some of them wrote books which are left to us. But I fear they were few and far between in terms of having any real influence. Men ruled the day and once married, your poor wife really was subject to whatever her husband chose to throw at her. But I do think many women did run estates. Most of the time they were pregnant anyway, so couldn't do too much gadding about!<br /><br />(Sorry to be late responding. Only just found your comment!)Elizabeth Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407958362024218785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-81779009644643601612017-09-07T23:26:58.514+01:002017-09-07T23:26:58.514+01:00Your post exactly defines the parameters of a Rege...Your post exactly defines the parameters of a Regency romance tale. It's amazing how many different ways we find to bring our heroes and heroines together, whatever the obstacles of birth and background. I just love making an impossible match happen. [And I love reading all the different versions of what you so beautifully describe as fairy stories for grown up little girls.]<br /><br />Of course, if our heroine was like poor Charlotte Lucas, the story could not be called a romance, which, to me, justifies all the unusual antics and adventures of the main characters in these stories. No doubt in real Regency era life, there were just as many determined and forceful females running businesses and estates as there are in any time period, whatever the official spin was. Beth Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291800895744785318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-41173351988944456332017-08-29T19:49:26.136+01:002017-08-29T19:49:26.136+01:00Thank you, Elizabeth. Yes, it does make for intere...Thank you, Elizabeth. Yes, it does make for interest when there are barriers to cross. The trade/aristocrat divide is particular hard to cross, I think. I've not done that one myself, though I did have a widowed heroine who had been more or less sold into marriage with a tradesman by her father. However that was past tense. She, though, was rich and he was a poverty-stricken poet, though of respectable birth, so there was still a divide - so that kind of fits the cash-strapped versus wealthy trade you mention.<br />Elizabeth Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09407958362024218785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18955239.post-84891049132183759882017-08-29T17:10:27.384+01:002017-08-29T17:10:27.384+01:00What an interesting post, Elizabeth. I've alwa...What an interesting post, Elizabeth. I've always enjoyed romances where hero and heroine come from opposing sides. He's a Norman knight, she's a Saxon lady whose estate had been confiscated; she's from a rich Puritan family, and he's a Cavalier who's lost everything and is on the run.<br /><br />Or, coming to Regency times, he's a cash-strapped aristocrat and she's from a wealthy Trade background, or the reverse, she's an impecunious French aristocrat, fleeing the Terror, and he's a wealthy London business man. For me, there's something very romantic about a man and a woman from very different backgrounds learning to adjust to each other. Elizabeth Hawksleyhttp://www.elizabethhawksley.comnoreply@blogger.com