Pssst, Eloisa James (a.k.a. Mary Bly, prof. Eng. Lit at Fordham) writes very smart Regencies with some good sex scenes. I particularly liked “Your Wicked Ways.”
The no sex rule doesn’t apply to Roberta Gellis’ Heiress series, which is set during the Napoleonic War (which is the war normally covered in Regency Novels). Her books are very well researched and wonderfully entertaining. The Heiress books are:
English Heiress
Cornish Heiress
Kent Heiress
Fortune’s Bride
A Woman’s Estate
I would have thought that Georgette Heyer should be credited with inventing the Historical Romance, and the Regency sub-genre?
Heyer wrote what I might call classic Regency, she was the grande dame of the genre. But Woodwiss’ novels got sexually explicit, describing in great detail, for example, the “deflowering” of an unwilling virgin(The Flame and the Flower). Instead of having people clothed for a ball on the cover(Heyer), Woodwiss novels would have those heaving bosomed, women, with their half off gowns, being accosted by big burly barbarian guys.
psst, Northern Piper see my post #18.
Terminus Est read my interview with Jayne Ann Krentz… we discuss the nerd as “the new face of American hunkdom.” I so called it!
Yesterday’s NYT Sunday Magazine had an article on Gay themed Romance novels. I would call that a sub-genre.
I loved that book! I read it when I was 11 or 12, in the early 80s.
At the time I thought it was a fabulous book. I sould reread it to see what I think of it as an adult.
A generous offer…which comes after I have sworn off Big People Books for the time being.
:smack:
Thanks for the offer.
Good – all the more for meeeeeeeeeee! 