#Elisabeth Gaskell

[moonmausoleum]

Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

This is a christmas ghost story by feminist writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The main themes of this story are patriarchal power, aristocratic pride and the repression of women. It is a story of abuse,- physical violence and mental cruelty.

By Elizabeth Gaskell This is a christmas ghost story by feminist writer Elizabeth Gaskell. The main themes of this story are patriarchal power, aristocratic pride and the repression of women. It is a story of abuse,- physical violence and mental cruelty. As with all Gothic stories, the protagonist is taken out of mainstream culture into an isolated world which becomes terrifying You know, my…

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#christmas #christmas short story #elisabeth gaskell #female writers #gothic fiction #short story

[odnagnisul]

100 livres à avoir lu dans sa vie (entre autres):

1984, George Orwell ✅

A la croisée des mondes, Philip Pullman

Agnès Grey, Agnès Bronte ✅

Alice au Pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll ✅

Angélique marquise des anges, Anne Golon

Anna Karenine, Léon Tolstoï

A Rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans

Au bonheur des dames, Émile Zola

Avec vue sur l'Arno, E.M Forster

Autant en emporte le vent, Margaret Mitchell

Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray

Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan ✅

Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Charlie et la chocolaterie, Roald Dahl ✅

Chéri, Colette

Crime et Châtiment, Féodor Dostoïevski

De grandes espérances, Charles Dickens

Des fleurs pour Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Des souris et des hommes, John Steinbeck ✅

Dix petits nègres, Agatha Christie ✅

Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ✅

Don Quichotte, Miguel Cervantés

Dracula, Bram Stocker ✅

Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust

Dune, Frank Herbert ✅

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ✅

Fondation, Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ✅

Gatsby le magnifique, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ✅

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K Rowling

Home, Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Kafka sur le rivage, Haruki Murakami

L'adieu aux armes, Ernest Hemingway ✅

L'affaire Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde

L'appel de la forêt, Jack London ✅

L'attrape-cœur, J. D. Salinger ✅

L'écume des jours, Boris Vian

L'étranger, Albert Camus ✅

L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera

La condition humaine, André Malraux

La dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas Fils

La dame en blanc, Wilkie Collins

La gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol

La ligne verte, Stephen King ✅

La nuit des temps, René Barjavel

La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de La Fayette ✅

La Route, Cormac McCarthy ✅

Le chien des Baskerville, Arthur Conan Doyle

Le cœur cousu, Carole Martinez

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas : tome 1 et 2

Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ✅

Le fantôme de l'opéra, Gaston Leroux

Le lièvre de Vaatanen, Arto Paasilinna

Le maître et Marguerite, Mikhaïl Boulgakov

Le meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley

Le nom de la rose, Umberto Eco

Le parfum, Patrick Süskind

Le portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✅

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery ✅

Le père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac ✅

Le prophète, Khalil Gibran ✅

Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel

Le rouge et le noir, Stendhal ✅

Le Seigneur des anneaux, J.R Tolkien ✅

Le temps de l'innocence, Edith Wharton

Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Luis Sepulveda ✅

Les Chroniques de Narnia, CS Lewis

Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, Emily Brontë

Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos ✅

Les Malaussène, Daniel Pennac ✅

Les mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, Simone de

Beauvoir

Les mystères d'Udolfo, Ann Radcliff

Les piliers de la Terre, Ken Follett : tome 1

Les quatre filles du Docteur March, Louisa May

Alcott

Les racines du ciel, Romain Gary

Lettre d'une inconnue, Stefan Zweig ✅

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ✅

Millenium, Larson Stieg ✅

Miss Charity, Marie-Aude Murail

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, Harper Lee ✅

Nord et Sud, Elisabeth Gaskell

Orgueil et Préjugés, Jane Austen

Pastorale américaine, Philip Roth

Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie

Pilgrim, Timothy Findley

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe ✅

Rouge Brésil, Jean Christophe Ruffin

Sa majesté des mouches, William Goldwin ✅

Tess d'Uberville, Thomas Hardy

Tous les matins du monde, Pascal Quignard

Un roi sans divertissement, Jean Giono

Une prière pour Owen, John Irving

Une Vie, Guy de Maupassant

Vent d'est, vent d'ouest, Pearl Buck

Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ✅

Total : 37/100

[voyageroftheastralseas]

Just when I’m starting to enjoy Moby Dick, I find out that Melville beat his wife and coerced his female family members to be copyists. See the below link:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2927436?searchText=Herman+Melville%2C+Wife+Beating%2Cand+the+Written+Page&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DHerman%2BMelville%252C%2BWife%2BBeating%252Cand%2Bthe%2BWritten%2BPage&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Af93cfde41dc3cf37514e0ad4ee4ff34d

Now, the male compium in me is saying that this all happened after Moby Dick was published, so, as far as I know, the book in my hands was not made based on women suffering. We’ll see if I can still finish the book.

In better news, it seems Hawthorne was decent. It’s between him or Elisabeth Gaskell at this point. I’m starting to get to the point where I just read women, avoid the whole “find the misogyny” part of finding a new author.

#text #radblr

[satin-carmin]

Come ! Poor little heart ! Be cheery and brave.

Elisabeth Gaskell, North and South

#north and south #elizabeth gaskell #classics #classic lit #british literature #victorian literature #dark academia

[tessabennet]

So. I'm back from my trip to Norway and am finally catching up on some stuff. Thank you @somanywords and @booksandabeer for the tag, sorry it took me a while 🩵

Last song: I'm listening to "For You" by Billy Talent as I type this

Last show: I honestly can't remember tbh? I finished the latest season of 911, but I don't think I consciously watched anything since then 😕

Last movie: the same, I think. Last one I really *watched* is probably Suicide Squad, but that was for research. And I've probably watched movies since then, but I can't remember right now because my brain is faulty at best

Currently watching: nothing, since I just got back from vacation. Taking recommendations for what I could watch next though! 😄

Currently reading: The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (I'm an irredeemably slow reader), and since my annual Austen reread is over I moved on to the audiobook version of North and South by Elisabeth Gaskell. I'll also probably start with The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence very soon

Current obsession: Norwegian history, sort of 🇸🇯 And I was just talking about how I've lately gotten into Taylor Swift rock covers with @the-littlefangirl, so that too, sort of

Passing the tag to @myauroraborealis @juiceboxdrink @random-jot @jo-unsolved and @libraryofglitter, if you guys want to do this. Mile, I tagged you already! And whoever else wants to join, consider yourselves tagged too 🤗

[noblehcart]

“ wait. You believe me? i just told you a completely wild story about being from another time, and you just… trust that i’m being honest?“

@lordofthestrix

Wide eyes, the color of deep spring , looked up at him from beneath dark lashes as she answered the only way she could think to answer though an ache lingered within. "Why would you lie to me?"

The teenager looked up to her friend who spoke like a prince, acted like a gentleman and achingly felt familiar though unknown. Somehow he knew everything and nothing about her. Somehow he anticipated and missed things about her. As if he knew half of her and hadn't met the rest. I've never tried that. She'd say and his reply was never wrong 'you'll love it'. Legs swung loosely as she sat on the fencing to a property, though ankles remained crossed with the sway of her skirt in the wind. Loose hair was tucked behind her ear as she carefully spoke again.

" You're my friend, aren't you?" She asks gently, cheeks flushing at the idea of it being wrong and it being...more. "This whole summer you knew bits and odds about me, but not everything. And everything you suggest- I do wind up liking."

Fingers twined together on her lap as she tried to find the words that didn't sound so saccharine, but it was just the nature of what she could produce. Swallowing thickly she carried on still slowly with each word spoken carefully and gently as though the wrong one might shatter something and send him away. "No matter how improbable if its the only thing left- even if impossible- has to be the truth. Or something like that." Lips pressed tightly together. "Did you ...are you...are we friends in the future? Is that why you know I like peonies and Elisabeth Gaskell and... everything ? I-"

She faltered and looked down to the swaying grass below. "I just think its a little unfair when I know nothing about you. Its a little bit too close to 'the time traveler's wife', but-" Her cheeks flushed pink. "I'm not saying that we're- I mean...its-its the concept of someone traveling back into someone else's timeline that is um...familiar."

#lordofthestrix #/ liesel ivanov / threads

[pianoshelluk]

In Manchester, playing at Elisabeth Gaskell’s House | Indian Wedding #pianoshell #bollywoodpianist #indianweddings #elisabethgaskell #museum (at Elizabeth Gaskell's House) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpqMKegsMps/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#pianoshell #bollywoodpianist #indianweddings #elisabethgaskell #museum

[hellolittleogre]

WIP meme (oh god why are there so many)

“Rules : post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. (please repost, don’t reblog) This isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DnD campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!”

I was tagged by the delightful @thesummoningdark. Some of these are very old and will likely never be finished - I've thrown a * beside ones which will maybe be picked up again, and a ** beside ones I 100% intend to go back and actually finish.

How to marry a millionaire (Batman)

On a cart through Sendaria, chapter 5 (the belgariad)*

North and South femslash (Elisabeth Gaskell North and South)

A Hive full of Honey (the magnificent seven 2016)

The kid is all right (les miserables)

Three is Company (cyrano 2022)

Izzy has two husbands (Our flag means death)

A marriage of miscommunication, chapter 2 (Pacific Rim)*

Blackbeard has 14 wives (Our flag means death)

Oh my jaws and whiskers (Jaws)

the dog days are over (the magnificent seven 2016)

WIP nhs/jc sex pollen (the untamed)

the Eagle Jane Eyre (the Eagle)

Handyman (cobra kai)

lwj/ww arranged marriage AU (the untamed)

Jakoby/Mike the orc (Bright)

#I feel like there is a theme to my ofmd fic #wip meme #sadly there are like ten more wip in my folder but I'm only including stuff I have edited this year #fucking bright #ugh

[angelkarafilli]

Richard Armitage in “North and South” (2004)

as John Thornton

ep2

#Richard Armitage #John Thornton #mr Thornton #North and South #bbc series #2004 #acting #actor #period drama #bbc adaptation #elisabeth gaskell

[inveens]

Na pewno masz takie dni - jak wszyscy, tak sądzę - kiedy wstajesz i mijają godziny, a ty marzysz o jakiejkolwiek odmianie, o jakiejś różnicy, o czymkolwiek.”

Elisabeth Gaskell

#po polsku #myśli #dni #poezja #znalezione #polskie słowa #słowa #polskie cytaty #cytaty po polsku #polski cytat #cytat po polsku #cytat #polish sentence #sentence #życie #life #people #ludzie #elisabeth gaskell #relationship #takie dni #godziny

[galathea-snb]

This is Cranford. Everything unchanging, perpetual. A society that knows itself. A place at peace. (Cranford, Part 1 of 5)

#perioddramaedit #cranfordedit #elisabethgaskelledit #elisabeth gaskell #cranford #scenery #mygifs #i just rewatched this miniseries #i'd forgotten how delightful it is

[invisibleicewands]

#North and South #Richard Armitage #Daniela Denby-Ashe #Margareth Hale #John Thornton #Elisabeth Gaskell

[passigentilcoquelicot]

Margaret HALE - Derek HALE

Coincidence ? I think not.

Someone needs to explain how those two are related.

#teenn wolf #north and south #derek hale #margaret hale #Elisabeth Gaskell #tyler hoechlin

[richardarmitagefanpage]

More details here.

#richard armitage #john thornton #daniela denby-ashe #margaret hale #north and south #elisabeth gaskells house #post #twitter #news

[ladyniniane]

Best-of 2020: Romans et nouvelles

Les nanars c’est bien, mais les lectures de qualité c’est mieux. Voici ceux que j’ai le plus appréciés parmi les livres lus et 2020. Et vous, quels sont vos coups de coeur pour cette année ?

-La treizième nuit et autres récits, Higuchi Ichiyo

-A different city, Tanith Lee

-Dis-lui que je l’attends, Takuji Ichikawa

-Le bal des folles, Victoria Mas

-Le chant des cavalières, Jeanne Mariem Corrèze 

-Le cirque des rêves, Erin Morgenstern

-Le mur invisible, Marlen Haushofer

-De pierre et d’os, Bérangère Cournut

-The tiger’s daughter, The phoenix empress, The warrior moon, K.Arsenault Rivera

-Seafire, Nathalie C. Parker

-Lady Hotspur, Tessa Gratton

-Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

-Kissing the witch, Emma Donoghue

-Mademoiselle de Maupin, Théophile Gautier

-La dormition des amants, Jacqueline Harpman

-Les miracles du bazar Namiya, Keigo Higashino

-Sisters of the vast black, Lina Rather

-Chroniques glorieuses, Enchi Fumiko

-Les pépètes du cacatoès, Elisabeth Segard

-Le tour du monde en 72 jours, Nellie Bly

-The secrets of Jin-shei, Alma Alexander

-A wolf at the door, Tanith Lee

-Venus Burning Realms, Tanith Lee

-Cold-Comfort farm, Stella Gibbons

-L’enfance d’une parisienne, Julia Daudet

-The goddess chronicles, Natsuo Kirino

-Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell

-Where the wild ladies are, Aoko Matsuda

-Café givré, Suzanne Selfors

-Dieu, le temps, les hommes et les anges, Olga Tokarczuk

-Le berger de l’avent, Gunnar Gunnarsson

#lecture #livres #about me #recommandations lecture #best-of 2020

[jacnaylor]

romance book recs!!

romance is my feel good genre, and it’s also usually somewhat easier to read during stressful times, so here’s a list of some books that are either romance or have a romance element i feel like mentioning.

(EDIT: I STAYED UP TILL 2 AM DOING THIS HELP. this is why some of the comments. don’t make any fucking sense.)

romance books and authors:

CONTEMPORARY:

1. The Bromance bookclub series by Lyssa Kay Adams (A group of men form a bookclub dedicated to romance books in order to understand women, improve their relationships and become better men. It’s funny, cute, and all about dismantling toxic masculinity one romance book at a time)

2. Mariana Zapata books (The queen of slowburn romance. The only book I’ve read by her is ‘Under Locke’, but ‘From Lukov with love’ and ‘Kulti’ have rave reviews. There is so much build up and SO much sexual tension with a great pay off)

3. Milly Johnson books (A uk author whose books are primarily set in the north, these are total feel good books. Not so much graphic and more romantic, but her characters are great and her plot lines really hook you in.)

4. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (Super cute, quick enemies-to-lovers story about a bridesmaid who has to go on a honeymoon with the best man when the bride and groom get food poisoning. Obviously this means the holy of holies: fake relationship!)

5. Well met by Jen De Luca (Oh my gosh! Super fun, the characters are just wonderful especially our heroine. A hate-to-love romance set at a renaissance fair! All about overcoming the limits you set on yourself and rethinking your first impressions.)

6. Katherine Center books (My personal favourites are ‘How to walk away’ about a woman who falls for her PT after a near fatal plane crash. And ‘Happiness for beginners’ about a woman taking part in a wilderness trail with her brothers annoying best friend. She writes such great plots and you really feel all the emotions!)

7. Mhairi Mcfarlane books (my personal favourites are ‘Here’s looking at you’ about a woman who comes face to face with her high school bully years later - only he doesn’t recognize her. And he’s not awful? Don’t worry. I know how that synopsis sounds. He’s not excused his actions, but you also understand how he’s grown and changed. It definitely gets you in the feels though. As does ‘You had me at hello’ Which is about a couple from university meeting again years later. God this woman can write angst and yearning!!)

8. A part of me by Anouska Knight (On the same day she and her husband have been accepted into the adoption process, their marriage implodes. This has such a cute romance which follows hate-to friends- to love and it’s v funny)

9. Southern Eclectic series by Molly harper (Just as it sounds. Southern small town romance with a great, quirky cast of characters)

10. Maggie’s man by Lisa Gardner (writing as Alicia Scott) (An escaped convict kidnaps a woman from the courthouse to act as his hostage whilst he tries to prove his innocence. Surprisingly funny and warm. Maggie as a heroine is an absolute joy. They’re sort of chaotic together and it’s a wild ride.)

11. The Mister by E.L James (LISTEN OK - SIT BACK DOWN - It’s not winning awards but it’s actually decent! I was skeptical, but I will admit I was won over. I mean parts are cheesy but it’s so addictive. Basically a rich man falls for his cleaning lady - but it’s also about the yearning. It’s also quite action packed as there’s danger, drama and a chase across europe to get the girl.)

12. RECENT Colleen Hoover (Now, you may enjoy older CH books. Personally I find them very problematic. Now I’ve really enjoyed her recent books though. Especially ‘Without Merit’ and ‘It ends with us’ and ‘Regretting you’. High angst, high drama, dark topics for all of her books. But you can tell she’s matured with her writing. She isn’t for everyone but they’re addictive, fast paced reads.

13. The Austenland duology by Shannon Hale (You might have seen the Austenland movie - The cutest, cheesiest, sweetest, campiest movie ever. Well there’s a book! It’s about women who go on a holiday and live their own Jane Austen story with actors. The first book leans towards Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield park. The second book is more Northanger abbey and Emma.

14. Brigid Kemmerer contemporaries (She is an auto-buy author for me, especially her contemporaries. She writes the best teenage characters, the best teenage boys I’ve ever read about. Her characters are real, she writes about kids trying their best, struggling, and being good, and kind, and the world not being kind to them. Usually the books have a pov from both the female and male love interest. I would rec any of them tbh. ‘Letters to the lost’ comes before it’s companion novel ‘More than we can tell’. I loved ‘Call it what you want’ with has modern Robin Hood elements!!!! seriously she is my favourite YA contemporary author.

15. Sophie Kinsella books (If you haven’t picked up her stand alone novels then what are you doing???? she is the queen!!!! Personal favourites are ‘Can you keep a secret’ and ‘I’ve got your number)

16. A quiet kind of thunder by Sara Barnard (I love her ok. Her books are short and sweet but she packs a punch. TBH these aren’t primarily romance, they’re more just about teenage girls but this one has a good romance element so I’m putting it on here. It’s about Steffi, a selective mute who sometimes communicates with basic sign language who is assigned to look after the new boy at school Rhys, who is deaf.)

17. Meet me at the museum by Anne Youngson (GORGEOUS! moving, tender. A lonely housewifes strikes up a correspondence with a widowed museum curator in Denmark. Oh gosh. I just love this one. It’s about friendship, love, grief, second chances, the choices we make. Seriously love this one and it’s not that long.)

FANTASY:

1. Sorcery of thorns by Margaret Rogerson (Elisabeth has grown up in the great library, protecting grimoires with powers and fearing sorcerers. When a dangerous grimoire is released, she’s forced to team up with an enigmatic sorcerer and his demonic servant in order to save the world.)

2. Sky in the deep duology by Adrienne Young (A viking inspired story about a warrior who is captured by the tribe she is at war with. Such good tension and it’s also got a lot of action. Battle couple romance! Mutual respect! Hate to love!)

3. The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (I’ve reread this book once but will end up reading it again. It’s a time travel romance about a woman staying in cornwall dealing with the death of her sister who is transported back and forth to the 17th century. It’s a favourite. The romance is wonderful but the stakes are really high too. I also love ‘Belleweather’ by the same author)

4. An ember in the ashes series by Sabaa Tahir (Oh god, the romance. THE ROMANCE! it’s so much. The angst, the pining, the longing. The first book follows Laia, part of a slave class in a roman inspired world. She begins spying in the top military academy and meets Elias, a reluctant soldier. This is a proper fantasy series with only the first three books out, but it’s so great.)

5. Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen (Let me just copy the blurb ok: “Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in a pointless war that never ends. But everything changes when Stella Parrish, a forbidden grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland in defiance of Pan's rules.” I MEAN COME ON. a gorgeous adult fairytale with love and redemption at the center.

6. The Mediator series by Meg Cabot (Obviously Meg Cabot is the most iconic and we stan. But this series is my absolute favourite by her. About Suze Simon, a kickass, no nonsense mediator - Someone who helps ghosts move on to the other side. Sometimes by force. She has to move house and ends up sharing her room with a 100 year old hot ghost named Jesse. The tension. The angst. THE BANTER!!!!)

7. House of Earth and Blood by Sara J Maas (a half fae half mortal girl tries to solve a murder with the help of a fallen angel. It’s a LONG book, but for me personally it flew by. It’s a big new fantasy world but the romance has a great build. Overcoming grief! Being normal together! Being in danger together! THE UST! the characters are so good. I ahven’t been this impressed by a new series for a while)

8. Cursebreakers series by Brigid Kemmerer (yep, she gets another mention. This one is a beauty and the best retelling about a man forced to relive the same season over and over, becoming a literal beat, until a girl from our world can break the curse. The second book, following secondary characters, is my fave so far. But both feature kickass ladies and those small romantic moments BK is so good at)

9. A court of thorns and roses series by Sara J Maas (a fae inspired beauty and the beast retelling. The only time you support a ship switch. Also the secondary ships are getting their own books and oh my god. I’m so excited.)

HISTORICAL/CLASSICS/MILLS AND BOON

1. Jane Austen (The original rom com queen, obviously. Pride and prejudice and Emma are faves. Also I have a major soft spot for the alwayc chaotic and underrated Northanger Abbey)

2. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Actually might be my favourite classic ever. Often described at an industrial p&p. Margaret, from the south, comes face to face with the harsh reality of the world when she moves up north and comes face to face with a brooding millowner. There’s obviously a lot more nuance than that but. THE PINING!!!!!! THE MISCOMMUNICATION! THE DRAMA!)

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (You might have seen the film. Please also read the book. Told entirely in letters. The sharp witted author Juliet Ashton falls in love with Guernsey and it’s characters whilst researching what happened there during the war. Funny, moving and romantic.)

4. The Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn (A butterfly hunter foils her own kidnap and is paired together with a reclusive natural historian. They solve mysteries together. They can’t admit they wanna sleep together. The tension.......unbearable. See also the Julia Grey mysteries by the same author)

5. The warrior knight and the widow by Ella Matthews (So last year I discovered Mills and Boon and I have no shame about it whatsoever. This is a medieval beauty and the beast retelling about a woman being escorted to her fathers estate by an enigmatic and scarred knight. She’s hoping to convince her father to let her steward her own lands, and of course trying not to fall for her escort.)

6. The bareknuckle bastards series by Sarah Maclean (A badass, brooding trio of siblings who rule the underbelly of Covent Garden fall for smart, beautiful women. Opposites attract, Good girl/bad boy, strong women, banter. Super fun historical romance)

7. Redeeming the reclusive earl by Virginia Heath (I just read this and it was seriously cute!!!! And book where the hero blushes even once is a good book in my opinion. Basically aspiring antiquarian named Effie barrels into the life of a new earl - who really just wants to be left alone to be grumpy and sad and disfigured. ALONE. But Effie wants to dig on his land. And she won’t take no for an answer. She also talks A LOT.

8. A family for the widowed governess by Ann Lethbridge (Technically this is part of a series but you don’t need to read them in order and this is the best one. A widow who is being blackmailed accepts a governess post. She can’t tell her employer about the blackmail especially when she starts falling for him.)

9. The bedlam stacks by Natasha Pulley (I read watchmaker and didn’t like it but you might like it. This one also FEAUTRES A M/M ROMANCE. I know this list was super straight im sorry. Anyway this is about a botanist falling in love with a priest in the jungle.

10. The wilderness series by Sara Donati (Think outlander without the time travel and also not set in scotland. Basically Last of the Mohicans fanfiction about Hawkeye’s grown up son. An english woman moves to america when her father promises she can be a school teacher there. Little does she know he actually has plans to marry her off. Things get more complicated when she falls for Nathaniel Bonner, a white man raised native american and who’s daughter and extended family is Native American. Like outlander there’s romance, adventure, history. But unlike the outlander books the love interest is a decent guy (i say as if i don’t love the tv show)

STUFF THAT REALLY ISN’T ROMANCE AT ALL. BUT I SHIP A SHIP.

1. The Lacey Flint series by Sharon Bolton (Lacey Flint is a police officer who becomes involved in the hunt to catch a Jack the ripper copycat. There actually is a strong romantic element with the other lead police officer.)

2. The last hours duology by Minette Walters. A novel about the black death and a closed estate lead by a woman who’s trying to protect her people. There’s also a kind of murder mystery. But she also has a close relationship to one of the surfs that I got super invested in.

3. The Strike series by J.k Rowling (I know we don’t stan anymore but. This series about  PI and his assistant slowly growing closer? Becoming best friends and partners? Not acknowledging any feelings for each other?

#books #book recs #literature #romance #romance books #romance reads #penvenens #romance recs #romance reader #historical romance #probably forgot loads