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I've often asked myself this question especially when I read a historical story and come across something that does not fit with the period. I've ranted about it in so many of my reviews.
For those of us who've been read writers like G. Heyer, J. Austen, B. Cartland, Jean Plaidy, Nigel Tranter, Henry Fielding and so much more, it is terribly irksome to us when it's clear a writer did not expend the effort in research at all. It just makes me want to ask for my money back.
Good for you Ms. Cobb; Excellent work!
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I've often asked myself this question especially when I read a historical story and come across something that does not fit with the period. I've ranted about it in so many of my reviews.For those of us who've been read writers like G. Heyer, J. Austen, B. Cartland, Jean Plaidy, Nigel Tranter, Henry Fielding and so much more, it is terribly irksome to us when it's clear a writer did not expend the effort in research at all. It just makes me want to ask for my money back.
Good for you Ms. Cobb; Excellent work!
Thank you for much for taking the time to provide such a detailed reply. I guess you really need to immerse yourself in the Regency era to be able to write about it. The reference library and the Beau Monde ( the Upper Ten Thousand?) would surely help!
The little things are what I wondered about like the price of something or how much a vicar would have earned per year or what a couple of indigent ladies would have eaten for dinner at home and things like that. When they seem wrong, then you get distracted from the story wondering "Would they have really done THAT?" OR "Would they have really used words like that?"
Please do keep writing more stories in the Regency era. It needs more writers focusing on story and characterization and less on having no-strings-attached affairs.