I hope you have enjoyed Garrett and Julia’s story. It’s always a joy for me to share the stories I create with you.
The Prince’s role in wanting to bring animals from Africa to help aid and develop the Royal Zoological Society wasn’t actually formed until a few years after the Regency in 1826 and it didn’t receive its Royal charter until 1829.
During the Regency, ladies of Society had little to no knowledge of a kitchen or how to cook. Something as simple as making a cup of tea was always prepared by a member of the staff. Kitchens were still quite primitive and it didn’t take much to make an oven fill the kitchen with smoke. It’s safe to assume that most ladies of Julia’s and Brina’s status in Society probably had no practical knowledge of how to make bread or soup. Their lifestyles were lavish. They had maids and footmen to carry out all personal and household duties.
As an author of Regency fiction, I often find a way to limit the number of servants that are in the household because it keeps the story from getting complicated. Most readers of this time period know ladies had maids to take care of their clothing, comb their hair, and tie or button them into their clothing. If I wrote in as many staff as would be required for a member of the ton, it would be cumbersome.
Ladies in the Regency era were ruled by men. When a man wanted to marry a woman, he had to ask permission from the male head of the family, be it her father, brother, uncle, or cousin twice removed. After marriage, her husband directed her life and their children’s. He controlled all her finances, including any property or funds she might have brought into the marriage.
As an author, I strive to weave the modern man who tries his best to understand what women went through into a historical hero, a man who must be helpful, respectful, and take responsibility for his good and bad behavior.
The premise of every story I write is that my heroine wants the hero to desire her more than anything in life and be willing to go after her and prove to her she is the only one for him.
I always enjoy hearing from readers. If you haven’t read book one in my First Comes Love series, The Earl Next Door, I hope you’ll look for it at your favorite local bookstore or e-retailer and be watching for book three, How to Train Your Earl.
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Happy reading to all!
Amelia