Blossom’s Reviews > A Rogue of One's Own > Status Update

“it is nigh impossible for a woman to achieve anything when burden with a husband, and the constant demands of wifely protocol, not to mention children.”

- Lucie’s reasoning for not wanting to get married.

“She had taken a rogue into her bed, into her life…”

Lucie and Tristan’s “friends with benefits” situation is just like the relationships in modern time. Instead of traditionally following the order of approval, courting, marriage, then sex, they go for sex then decide from there what they want to be. It’s complex but very similar to how relationships are now in the modern world. This is the freedom I think Lucie is fighting for in a way for women.

“a woman who use words as weapons on behalf of girls who saw no choice, but to jump. While the ladies and her mother saloon ripped it over the agony of choosing the correct wallpaper and hush tones, Mrs. Butler talked about forcibly, apprehended, women, and injustice, and double standards, and she had hung on every word.“

- Lucien’s reason for her banishment and her decision to be an activist.

“The university had united on the same settee, a banking heiress studying the fine arts, a Scottish lady working as a research assistant for her professor, father, and a Vicar‘s daughter, a Duchess, studying the classics.”

“She was not just left on the shelf, she was the shelf.”

Talking about Lucie.