“Hey Penelope, your wallflower days are over, you rad spinster, you!” - Lady Danbury, probably
This episode, we take our sweet time and tackle tropes from Julia Quinn’s Romancing Mr. Bridgerton. Featuring dudebros, privilege, history as setting, female friendship, reading recommendations, and more!
Book 5, To Sir Phillip with Love, airs in two weeks.
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Mentioned:
Sabrina
Captain Marvel
How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
Return to Me
Thirteen Going on Thirty
Crash Landing On You
Wynona Earp
Date Night with Alyssa Cole, Loyalty Books
KJ Charles, Society of Gentlemen series
Recs:
Writers (historical)
Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You (1994)
Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke (2014)
Heroines who aren't teeny-tiny
Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (2019) and Take a Hint, Dani Brown (2020)
Wallflowers & spinsters
Sarah MacLean's One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (2013)
Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne (2016)
Secrets
Celeste Bradley, The Pretender, The Imposter, and The Spy ("Liar's Club" series, 2003), To Wed a Scandalous Spy (2005)
Beverly Jenkins, Indigo (1996)
Courtney Milan, Unraveled (Turner #3) (2011)
Alyssa Cole, An Extraordinary Union (2017)
Elizabeth Hoyt, Maiden Lane series, #4-6: Thief of Shadows (2012), Lord of Darkness (2013), Duke of Midnight (2013)
Alexa Martin, Fumbled (2019)
Alexis Daria, Take the Lead (2017)
Girl next door
Kwana Jackson, Real Men Knit (2020)
Unrequited love /friends to lovers
Samantha Young, Before Jamaica Lane (2014)
Women who run empires
Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (2019)
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