The Macaronis and Unusual Historicals

[erastes]

Two interesting posts, co-incidentally, and unusually, both on women by gay historical authors.

Lady Mary Hervey by yours truly on Unusual Historicals - the wife of the scandalous "Amphibious Thing", Lord John Hervey.

The Other Side of the Ballroom - writing women in gay historical romance by lee_rowan on The Macaronis

Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mention - and for that other post, I hadn't seen that blog before.

The tag lines on mine are a hoot--The other, Word Press, Ginger Rogers, Captain Jack, Mark Twain, and septic.

Given those as a prompt, the resulting essay is a scary thing to contemplate...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's a good blog, with some great posts, but sadly ignored by many.

*laughs* that does raise some interesting bunnies.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Really nice posts/reviews. I like the reminder that characters have a whoole social surround that they interact with, and often in supportive and positive ways, not just the stereotypic negative "Do not Want!" ways.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nod nod, it's unlikely that any man would be raised without ANY female interaction. Geoffrey (in Hard & Fast) comes closest, with no mother, but with a father and two older brothers. However it's also unlikely that his father would have spent a huge amount of time without him, and his brothers both went off to war before he was seven so he would have had nursery maids, nannies.