Sally Pegram
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Does anyone else wonder why Monty is the name of the main character of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue when it was already the name of the main character of (the musical) Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder? Their releases are only a couple of years apart, and with the similar titles and the same main character names, it just seems to be too much for just coincidence.
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Mackenzi
As the author, I can answer this :) The book is named after The Gentleman's Guide to His Tour Through Italy, a guide book from the 1700s that I read as research for the book. But it didn't have a title for a long time--Monty was named looooong before the bookwas. However, I had seen the musical Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder when it first opened on broadway--long before I was working on this book, but I fell in love with the name Monty and thought I wanted to someday name a character Monty. And then I did.....and then also happened to share half a title with the musical in which I first heard that name. By the time we landed on the title, I was too attached to the name and couldn't bear to change it!
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