Wednesday, December 21, 2011  TBR Challenge - It's Not Wallpaper
But It's Still Not to My Taste  Over at AAR, Lynn Spencer posted
a great piece on what a shame it is that so many Regency
romances don't bother to take place in the Regency period.
Chatsworth House  Coincidentally, my TBR Challenge read for
December is A Regency Christmas, a holiday anthology from
Signet. It was published in 1989, theoretically the heyday of
more historically appropriate regency romance. Apart from the
issue of the value of money, which no one seems to get right,*
there's enough of the flavor of the Regency period. For example,
The Kissing Bough by Patricia Rice has two gentlemen soldiers
returning from the Peninsular Wars. Gayle Buck's Old
Acquaintances turns on a misunderstanding between the hero and
heroine that resulted in her ending their engagement (four years
before the story starts) without much discussion. That seems
consistent with the lack of contact even engaged couples had
back then; at one point Judith tells her e