Michael gets consent! He gets it! In Part 2, Lydia and Taylor discuss seeing another side of Lady Vi’s character, grapple with themes of Julia Quinn’s When He Was Wicked, including grief, death of a spouse, and guilt, and decide where Michael ranks among the Bridgerton books so far. Lydia gives a recap and analysis of Francesca and Michael's second epilogue and Taylor FINALLY gets to rant about colonialism. Plus: Book recs!
CW: miscarriage, infertility, colonialism, death of a spouse
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Book recs:
Great Scot!:
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (1991)
Jennifer Ashley, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (2009)
Maya Banks, Never Seduce a Scot (2012)
Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default (2018)
Widows (but not straight):
Olivia Waite, A Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (2018)
Courtney Milan, Mrs Martin's Incomparable Adventure (2019)
Alisha Rai, Wrong to Need You (2015)
Angsty relative widows:
Naima Simone, Sin and Ink (2018)
Lorraine Heath, The Earl Takes All (2016)
Angsty widows, no cousin stuff:
Diane Biller, The Widow of Rose House (2019)
Jessie Mihalik, Aurora Blazing (2019)(Tay forgot to say it in the episode)
Lord Liverpool, freedom of the press and class politics:
Olivia Waite, The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (2020)
Celeste Bradley, “Liars Club” and “Royal Four” series (2003-2006)
KJ Charles, “Society of Gentlemen” series (2015-2016)
Mentioned in this episode:
Edward Said, On Orientalism (1978)
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911)
Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901)
B&N cover fiasco-- see “Author L.L. McKinney: Barnes & Noble 'Diverse Editions' Are 'Literary Blackface',” NPR, Feb. 2020: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/803473296/author-l-l-mckinney-barnes-noble-diverse-editions-are-literary-blackface
Mark Twain
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)
Project Gutenberg free classic ebooks, https://www.gutenberg.org/
Virginia Woolf
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