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567. Historical Research and Ill Mannered Ladies with Alison Goodman

Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: A Romance Novel Podcast

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The Middling to Upper Class Women in the Regency Era

"It's ostensibly a gas of stories, but it's almost an ensemble as well because we have some other very important characters," she says. "If you lose the emotional through line, I think you'd lose the book." The idea of women working was 'an anathema' in Regency society,. She also talks about ageism and how that still exists today.

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