Wanted - recommendation for something different
ConversazioniRomance - from historical to contemporary
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1shutznednol
I’m hoping for some recommendations for historical romance - preferably Victorian, but anything would do, really. Tired of aristocracy and noble-centric characters and plots. Would love a working class/everyday people romance set in this period. I really like Alice Coldbreath’s Victorian Prizefighters series, so something in that vein would be appreciated.
TIA!
Victorian Romance
Alice Coldbreath
TIA!
Victorian Romance
Alice Coldbreath
2parlerodermime
I haven't read any Alice Coldbreath, so I don't know how it compares, but what about Mimi Matthews? She definitely hits the Victorian era qualification, and her The Work of Art is free over at Smashwords right now, so there's a low-commitment way to try out her writing style. I really like it, and enjoy how the depth of her research shines through. In particular, she came to mind based on her Parish Orphans of Devon series.
A couple tangential recs:
+ India Holton has fantasy elements and is probably not what you're looking for, but her work is solidly in a version of Victorian England, and definitely not about aristocracy / nobles.
+ Anna Bradley's The Swooning Virgin Society is more Regency/Georgian, but if you skipped it because it sounded like it was the classic aristocratic marriage mart type fare, you might be more interested when I say the heroines in the series were all taken in at the "Charity School for Wayward Girls" and raised to be sort of vigilante / private investigators. They're all mystery romances.
+ At quick perusal, Susanna Craig doesn't avoid aristocracy, but I thought her takes were interesting, and Runaway Desires had some well-researched insight into the abolition movement, and in the Love and Let Spy series, nobility is more incidental than than anything else. They're pretty good fun spy romances.
+ Katharine Ashe's The Prince is about a woman disguising herself as a man so that she can train in medicine.
+ Jennifer McQuiston's Diary of an accidental wallflower is about a young woman who is sidelined from the marriage mart with a sprained ankle, and the freedom that gives her to consider a *different* path rather than the advantageous marriage she thinks will make her parents happy.
A couple tangential recs:
+ India Holton has fantasy elements and is probably not what you're looking for, but her work is solidly in a version of Victorian England, and definitely not about aristocracy / nobles.
+ Anna Bradley's The Swooning Virgin Society is more Regency/Georgian, but if you skipped it because it sounded like it was the classic aristocratic marriage mart type fare, you might be more interested when I say the heroines in the series were all taken in at the "Charity School for Wayward Girls" and raised to be sort of vigilante / private investigators. They're all mystery romances.
+ At quick perusal, Susanna Craig doesn't avoid aristocracy, but I thought her takes were interesting, and Runaway Desires had some well-researched insight into the abolition movement, and in the Love and Let Spy series, nobility is more incidental than than anything else. They're pretty good fun spy romances.
+ Katharine Ashe's The Prince is about a woman disguising herself as a man so that she can train in medicine.
+ Jennifer McQuiston's Diary of an accidental wallflower is about a young woman who is sidelined from the marriage mart with a sprained ankle, and the freedom that gives her to consider a *different* path rather than the advantageous marriage she thinks will make her parents happy.
3shutznednol
>2 parlerodermime: Thank you for the recommendations - will definitely follow up on them!
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