Thank you! I still feel less than great, but today my temp's back to normal.
And I have never heard of this book, and I thought I was pretty well versed in old queer fiction. 1961!
So if it's the second oldest, what's the oldest one?
I hope you enjoy the Old Bridge Inn books. Nobody's going to mistake them for Great Literature, but they're doing things I haven't seen in my (fairly limited) reading of other queer romance books. They also feel a lot less anachronistic than any other recent historicals I've read--of course the characters have views that look decently progressive to us modern readers, but they mostly seem to arrive at them via the language and thought processes of their own times.
I must note, however, the complete omission of characters of color and of any mention of the anti-slavery movement, which is weird for a book set in the 1790s.
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Date: 2024-07-13 05:32 pm (UTC)And I have never heard of this book, and I thought I was pretty well versed in old queer fiction. 1961!
So if it's the second oldest, what's the oldest one?
I hope you enjoy the Old Bridge Inn books. Nobody's going to mistake them for Great Literature, but they're doing things I haven't seen in my (fairly limited) reading of other queer romance books. They also feel a lot less anachronistic than any other recent historicals I've read--of course the characters have views that look decently progressive to us modern readers, but they mostly seem to arrive at them via the language and thought processes of their own times.
I must note, however, the complete omission of characters of color and of any mention of the anti-slavery movement, which is weird for a book set in the 1790s.