I’m Emily, and I love traditional romance novels. Traditional Regency Romance? Even better.
It started with Pride & Prejudice. Obviously. Then, weirdly, Poldark, which I guess is sort of Regency and semi-traditional? Not romance, though.
Read the opening 3 chapters of Hearth or Heart.
Growing up, I always had an intimate connection to not-so-ancient history. Just outside my childhood bedroom window, poking above the grassy knoll that was once a slag heap, is a green iron eye – the last relic of a mine that generations of my family worked in.
History is HUGE. It’s present, paradoxically. I love it so much I have a Masters in it.
But literature… I love literature more than I do history.
Hmmm… someone who loves traditional romances, literature, and history – what could she possibly do with her life?
Clearly the only course open to me was to… write a traditional Regency Romance!
In embarking on this journey of research and writing, between the tears and tantrums I might actually have learned something.
Maybe I’ve even written something that you, a traditional Regency Romance reader, may enjoy???
“One might wonder why a woman would suffer marriage at all if not for the benefits of widowhood.”
Traditional Romance
By traditional, I mean my Regency world is more Austen than Bridgerton, making use of authentic dialogue, plots, and styles of the time. My novels are clean but with genuine and powerful stakes that aren’t centred around a yearning to take clothes off.
I write happy ever afters, with slow-burn (romances weren’t fast & physical in this era) and witty dialogue, with a wide and rich cast of side characters.
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