Comments on: Why I Love Historical Romance

By: Julia London

Julia London — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:10:56 +0000

Thank you, Patricia! I really appreciate that.

By: Patricia Barraclough

Patricia Barraclough — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:12:58 +0000

Historicals allow us to visit a time and place we could never go. Plus if we did live in that time period, we would probably have been the servants, not the heiress. What fun would that have been? There are modern romances of course, but in many cases, we can relate to the situation and characters.

Since this is your day to post, Julia, I want to say I just finished SUMMER OF TWO WISHES. Not an historical, I know, but a situation not many will find themselves in. Really enjoyed it. Was a military wife during Viet Nam, and just such a situation was something many of us considered. What a difficult situation to deal with for everyone. You handled it very well.

By: Julia London

Julia London — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:11:53 +0000

I’m not familiar with Donna Fletcher…I will have to check her out!

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Sabrina Jeffries — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:49:45 +0000

I like historicals because you can have things in them that wouldn’t fly in contemporaries–kidnappings, marriage of convenience, marriage by proxy, pirates, highwaymen ….

I really like pirates and highwaymen.

By: Pesky

Pesky — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:42:07 +0000

Hmmmm…so good it posted twice? Donna Fletcher, she still does Medievals.

By: Pesky

Pesky — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:40:36 +0000

You’re right, I thought her last historical was placed farther back in history, but I took a look at it and it’s not.

By: Pesky

Pesky — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:40:18 +0000

You’re right, I though her last historical was placed farther back in history, but I took a look at it and it’s not.

By: Cail

Cail — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:02:57 +0000

Nicole, I seem to remember a sex scene on like page 1 in one of your books! Can’t remember which, but one of the older ones.

I love historicals so much. I can’t completely put why into better words than the rest of you have. There is just something to them that does it for me.

I miss writing letters also. I still write letters to my DH. We spent most of our teenage years communicating via the post, so I can’t seem to abandon it.

By: Julia London

Julia London — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:30:40 +0000

Janae, I feel the same way. My brother has a stack of letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother during the first world war, before they were married. The penmanship and thought construction was sublime in those letters. Its really so shorthanded now. More info in less time to more people.

I’ve even gotten some fan emails written in texting language which is disconcerting. I have to concentrate.

By: Janae

Janae — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:04:15 +0000

I love history; devoted 4 years of my life to in college. I prefer European historicals because there’s nothing glamourous about a log cabin, using a wagon as transportation, worrying about Indian attacks, and living in the boonies with no culture. There’s something inherently compelling with the titled aristocracy. I love medieval historicals – Jude Deveraux and Julie Garwood got me thru hs and college – thru about 1840-50. I think that my cutoff is affected by my knowledge of what London and England was like at that time – slums, lamps lit during the day because London air was so dirty, etc. The glamour is gone, so the appeal is gone for me.

I wish we hadn’t lost the language. My favorite part of studying history was the research. I loved reading the letters written during the Civil War. I’d forget to take notes because I’d get lost in the language.