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Yuletide Recs
Dec. 27th, 2020 03:49 pmI think I won Yuletide this year. I nominated and requested A Lady of Quality, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a very odd proto- Georgian-romance novel whose heroine is almost an antiheroine, and who is far more like the standard Regency-romance Tall Dark and Arrogant Hero Who Must Be Redeemed By The Love of a Good Woman than anything else. And someone wrote me the most wonderful fic for it!
The Manners of a Gentleman (A Lady of Quality series, 4.5k, T)
It has literally everything I could have wanted: Clorinda in all of her magnificent cold-blooded glory as avenging angel! Anne coming a little bit into her own! Cross-dressing (although not where you might expect)! A really wonderful suggestion about Clorinda's marriage that I want to make my headcanon! Style that perfectly mimics the original novel and the ethos of the period it depicts! Some amazingly purple passages that FHB just wishes she could have thought of for describing just how majestically beautiful her heroine is!
If you're a fan of earlier-setting Regencies and Georgian romances (think These Old Shades, Devil's Cub, and so on), I think you might find this an enjoyable romp even if you haven't read the novel it's based on. But if you enjoy that type of novel, I think you might enjoy A Lady of Quality as well as "The Manners of Gentleman"!
Here are some other recs, in no particular order:
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The Manners of a Gentleman (A Lady of Quality series, 4.5k, T)
It has literally everything I could have wanted: Clorinda in all of her magnificent cold-blooded glory as avenging angel! Anne coming a little bit into her own! Cross-dressing (although not where you might expect)! A really wonderful suggestion about Clorinda's marriage that I want to make my headcanon! Style that perfectly mimics the original novel and the ethos of the period it depicts! Some amazingly purple passages that FHB just wishes she could have thought of for describing just how majestically beautiful her heroine is!
If you're a fan of earlier-setting Regencies and Georgian romances (think These Old Shades, Devil's Cub, and so on), I think you might find this an enjoyable romp even if you haven't read the novel it's based on. But if you enjoy that type of novel, I think you might enjoy A Lady of Quality as well as "The Manners of Gentleman"!
Here are some other recs, in no particular order:
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