A Lady of the Fancy!

Today I am blogging over at the UK Historical Authors Blog about Regency boxing. Joanna, heroine of Whisper of Scandal, is a Lady of the Fancy, a patron of the boxing fraternity. How she came to have this role when she dislikes boxing and any form of violence is part of the background to the book. Like my heroine I am not a huge fan of boxing but I certainly found the research for that part of the book to be fascinating. My favourite snippet was that because boxing was technically illegal, fans would head out of London to a fight carrying fishing rods as a decoy. Given that there could be a crowd of up to 30 000 converging for a fight, that was some fishing trip! Read more about Regency boxing here!

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