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Tortuous Tales of Georgian Romance
I have 2 titles published of my newest series, 3 Aristocrats Find Love. The stories take place in 1794, 1795 and 1796. Book 1 is Kissing The Contessa, Book 2 is Winning Lady Madeleine.
It's a fascinating decade of history in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1789, which the includes the rise of Napoleon and the Peninsula wars with England pitted against France.
Ladies and gentlemen's fashion went through upheavals as well. The frills and flounces and big skirts of earlier were on their way out and the French Revolution inspired a less fussy, plainer look for ladies.
New weaving techniques made lighter fabrics available for ladies gowns, including the sprigged muslin so popular from 1800. For men, fussy buckled shoes started to give way to leather boots, and men's fashion became more rugged and masculine, though the famous dandy still held his own.
On the social scene, coffee houses became places to be seen and Gunter's famous tea shop in London's Berkeley Square rose to prominence for its ices.
It was not fashionable to marry for love and a man could be ridiculed if the gossips discovered he was in love with his wife. Partnerships were made on a business basis and much historical fiction deals with those themes, but where's the fun in that? There's a reason why Regency Romance is so popular (and Georgian Romance).
I haven't finished with the decade and I have one more book to complete, Romancing Ava Russell. It'll be released later in 2024.
Winning Lady Madeleine: A Georgian Romance
It's a fascinating decade of history in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1789, which the includes the rise of Napoleon and the Peninsula wars with England pitted against France.
Ladies and gentlemen's fashion went through upheavals as well. The frills and flounces and big skirts of earlier were on their way out and the French Revolution inspired a less fussy, plainer look for ladies.
New weaving techniques made lighter fabrics available for ladies gowns, including the sprigged muslin so popular from 1800. For men, fussy buckled shoes started to give way to leather boots, and men's fashion became more rugged and masculine, though the famous dandy still held his own.
On the social scene, coffee houses became places to be seen and Gunter's famous tea shop in London's Berkeley Square rose to prominence for its ices.
It was not fashionable to marry for love and a man could be ridiculed if the gossips discovered he was in love with his wife. Partnerships were made on a business basis and much historical fiction deals with those themes, but where's the fun in that? There's a reason why Regency Romance is so popular (and Georgian Romance).
I haven't finished with the decade and I have one more book to complete, Romancing Ava Russell. It'll be released later in 2024.
Winning Lady Madeleine: A Georgian Romance
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