Sep 20 2011 4:00pm  Lovingly Researched or Wallpaper? Pick Your
Historical Poison  Silk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase  “Oh,
that’s Wallpaper History!” I’m sure you’ve heard this
exzclamation—and I’m sure it wasn’t meant as compliment. Every
Historical Romance novel has to have involved some degree of
research. And the opinion of the degree necessary varies from
reader to reader.  This reader appreciates a well-researched
book. I love to read an author who has so thoroughly researched
her era and her location that she imbues the story with the
essence of her research and uses it to inform the story and move
it forward. So yes, okay, I mean Loretta Chase. But I also mean
Jo Beverley and Mary Balogh, among others.  In her Fresh Meat
post for Loretta Chase’s Silk is for Seduction, Cheryl Sneed
highlights one of those moments when a deep understanding of the
time and place is essential to the story. In this quote,
Marcelline Noirot explains to the Duke of Clevedon what is
perfectly obvious to all of us, but wo