Untamed Rogue, Scandalous Mistress

by Bronwyn Scott

Book Overview

Self-made miss Aurora Calhoun has always possessed an uncommon amount of sense when it comes to men. However, within minutes of colliding with Lord Ramsden's carriage, she finds herself kissing the incorrigible rogue Crispin Ramsden feels restrained by the shackles of his unwanted inheritance. Especially when he is faced with a woman whose impetuous nature ignites a passion that is as uncontrollable as it is scandalous Society is rocked by this outrageous...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373296010
• ISBN13: 9780373296019
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.6"

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Untamed Rogue, Scandalous Mistress by Bronwyn Scott - book review Bronwyn Scott delivers another incredible hot Regency with her Untamed Rogue, Scandalous Mistress. A must read. *** A word about Regency Romances and why they remain popular. The Regency Era in Literature refers to the period in which George III, King of England, was mad and ruled unfit to rule. His son, the Prince of Wales (the heir to the British throne is always known by this title) was made Prince Regent, and became George IV, after the mad George III died. In Literature and culture, the Regency era extends from 1795 to about 1837, and like the Napoleonic Second Empire (Deuxieme Empire) with its rise of les horizontales, the Regency era was marked by increased spending on the part of the Prince Regent, with gambling hells, (gambling halls) rampant drinking, with great inequity among the classes, and the rise of London rookeries (slums), with much womanizing, drinking and gambling amongst the upper echelons, and much thievery and violent crime amongst the lower echelons. There were the wealthy, outrageously corrupt upper echelons, and the squalor of the lowest echelons. Many unscrupulous people devised ways to rid the wealthy of their prizes, by various devious means, all of which leads to hot plots in literature. The most notable example of Regency-era British literature is Jane Austen. We in North America derive our social mores and customs from the French Napoleonic era and the Regency era in England, as does Northern Europe, who were taught the `right way' to behave. Customs like the Debutante coming out parties, parties to announce bridal nuptials, conventions surrounding the wording and sending of Thank You cards, conventions surrounding the use of Place Cards at parties, conventions of seating (man-woman, man-woman) at dinner parties, conventions of dress (you do NOT wear white shoes until after the end of May), the wearing of hats by women (most common in the Southern U.S.) but sometimes still in Boston, where Boston women do not BUY their hats, because we already HAVE out hats, handed down to us. (I own several wide-brimmed hats, plus winter hats and French berets of various styles.) Our style of greeting, our style of polite conversation is also derived from this Regency era, with its distinct class boundaries, and even more distinct rules. The Prince Regent was pretty much barred from politics and left to pursue his own pleasure, which also fueled the culture of hedonism. Technological advances enabled printing presses to print sheets at a previously unprecedented rate of 1100 per hour, compared to only 200 sheets per hour a few years before. This gave rise to popular novellas, the modern-day equivalent of ancient Roman penny novels, and the forerunner to popular fiction, especially Romantic fiction. These Regency novels were often `novels with a key' - `Romans a clefs' in which scandalous members of high society were not directly named but w