GUEST POST: An Essay on Working Heroines

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Like many romance fans, I recently read the newest book by Loretta Chase, Silk Is For Seduction.  Like many fans, I too loved it.  It is a great example of the qualities I look for in a romance: interesting characters, engaging storyline and witty, sometimes startlingly funny, dialogue.  It also seemed refreshingly different.  Now, I've been reading romances since the mid-nineties.  So I've read through the many tropes of the historical heroine – the TSTL innocent, the hoyden, the martyr...