Ha ha ha! I think I may have met Bennett at a party on the Upper East Side, actually. He probably wouldn't remember me - I wasn't even writing YA at the time - but we had a mutual acquaintance. I still have to read September Girls.
don't understand why people love the Regency era so much, I mean, I get that people were reserved back then, but why is that interesting?
My thought is that there was so much coded communication/subtext expressed through understatement/outright denial that it's interesting to try and chart the emotional landscape/politics as characters adhere to certain conventions while still striving for what they want (especially if said want is outside of what they're "supposed" to desire)
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don't understand why people love the Regency era so much, I mean, I get that people were reserved back then, but why is that interesting?
My thought is that there was so much coded communication/subtext expressed through understatement/outright denial that it's interesting to try and chart the emotional landscape/politics as characters adhere to certain conventions while still striving for what they want (especially if said want is outside of what they're "supposed" to desire)
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