Clean Romances discussion

As much as I love a good Regency romance it gets tedious reading books with basically the same setting. I'd love some romance recommendations set in other time periods. I particularly like 1890s but honestly anything except regency would be nice. Thank you!

Try Jody Hedlund. She writes beautiful, tender and sweet historical romances. I also recommend Mimi Matthews, She has several victorian romances which are great. Another one of my favorite authors are Sara M. Eden. She has stories set in victorian era, Georgian era and also 19th century America.

Yes to Sarah M. Eden. I LOVED The Lady and the Highwayman.

You could just go right to the original novels written at the time.
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell and other "silver fork" novelists
William Makepeace Thackery
Anthony Trollope
Edith Wharton

I really like Shadow Mountain Publishing's True Romance line.
Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton

Belgravia is basically the same thing as a Regency romance but it's set in the early Victorian period following Waterloo.

The Fortune Hunter is a historical biographical novel/romance.

If you like inspirational and American west stories Regina Scott has branched out a bit from her early Regency romances to more inspirational stories set in the west. Her current series is set in the National Parks. A Distance Too Grand

Do you like gentle romantic stories?
D.E. Stevenson was a nice, classic, vintage author or romantic comedies and light romances.

Angela Thirkell was a 20th century Jane Austen. She wrote social satire with romance plots set in English country villages like Austen.

How do you feel about mysteries with romantic elements?
Death Below Stairs is a good series. The heroine sleuth is a Victorian era cook in a wealthy household in London. Her love interest is somewhat mysterious and rogueish. They solve crimes together.

A Curious Beginning Veronica Speedwell series is also a mystery with romance as is the author's Lady Julia Gray Silent in the Grave.

There's lots more! It's a very popular subgenre these days. I read Regency to 1920s set mysteries all the time.

Yes to Sarah M. Eden. I LOVED The Lady and the Highwayman.

You could just go right to the original novels written at the time.
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell and other "silver fork" novelists
William Makepeace Thackery
Anthony Trollope
Edith Wharton

I really like Shadow Mountain Publishing's True Romance line.
Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton

Belgravia is basically the same thing as a Regency romance but it's set in the early Victorian period following Waterloo.

The Fortune Hunter is a historical biographical novel/romance.

If you like inspirational and American west stories Regina Scott has branched out a bit from her early Regency romances to more inspirational stories set in the west. Her current series is set in the National Parks. A Distance Too Grand

Do you like gentle romantic stories?
D.E. Stevenson was a nice, classic, vintage author or romantic comedies and light romances.

Angela Thirkell was a 20th century Jane Austen. She wrote social satire with romance plots set in English country villages like Austen.

How do you feel about mysteries with romantic elements?
Death Below Stairs is a good series. The heroine sleuth is a Victorian era cook in a wealthy household in London. Her love interest is somewhat mysterious and rogueish. They solve crimes together.

A Curious Beginning Veronica Speedwell series is also a mystery with romance as is the author's Lady Julia Gray Silent in the Grave.

There's lots more! It's a very popular subgenre these days. I read Regency to 1920s set mysteries all the time.

I'm releasing a clean historical romance set on the frontier of America in 1763 during Pontiac's Rebellion, Sarah's Choice. I've written for several Christian/Inspirational historical romance collections, which I enjoy doing, but Sarah's Choice is a clean read without the spiritual elements. It deals with some gritty issues, as life was pretty brutal during this place and time, but without getting into gratuitous violence or explicit scenes. Sarah's Choice releases officially on August 3rd, but the paperback version will be out a week or so earlier.

This is book one of Forts of Refuge, and book two, Maggie's Strength, will release Nov. 2nd. I'm currently writing book three!

demicaractere wrote: "As much as I love a good Regency romance it gets tedious reading books with basically the same setting. I'd love some romance recommendations set in other time periods. I particularly like 1890s bu..."

My six novels are set in England in the 1740s. There's some language (because "Zounds!" is not always an adequate response) but not as bad as you'd find on the average middle-school playground. Violence: a bit. Humor: some. Sex: none. There also are not a lot of ballrooms and tea parties (the tea party as such had not been invented yet), and the characters are not always aristocrats. My heroines do not lose their wits when kissed, either.

You might enjoy my most recent release, Portia and the Merchant of London, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Sally Britton started a new Western series set in 1890s. The first book features an English Duke that’s fascinated with cowboys and goes to Arizona.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Just Ella is a nice clean romance with some twists. It gives a nod to the Medieval/ Renaissance period.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

And if you’re open to a Regency with a more unique setting (no ballrooms or rides in Hyde Park) try Saving Miss Everly (also by Sally Britton) It takes place mostly on a deserted island after a group is shipwrecked. It is one of my favorites!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

And Georgana’s Secret by Arlem Hawkes is also a regency romance/action/adventure book that takes place almost entirely on a ship where the heroine is disguised as a cabin boy.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...