Books I'd like to see...

[katranna]

brought to you thanks to a conversation with dangermousieA modern 20-something Jane Austen fan gets transported to Regency England. There, she discovers that since she does not belong to any established family and has no protectors, and since she cannot be placed into any class, she automatically falls to the lowest level of society. Her speech alone confuses

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[a_priori]

The sequel almost sounds more interesting! Or at least less sad.

[katranna]

I tried to make it less sad. :-p She'd very likely get raped but I tried to avoid that!

[a_priori]

Might she at least learn some valuable, character-building lessons from this adventure?

[katranna]

Sure. :-p She'd learn not to romanticize the Austen era as a time of romance, gentility, and dashing suitors.

[sinclair_furie]

AMAZING!

[kylecassidy]

have you seen Lost in Austen?

[katranna]

I haven't, but I'm aware of scores of time travel romances, very often lately dealing with Austen's book fans being transported to Regency England, but sometimes the Victorian or other eras, and the heroine of the books always finds it ridiculously easy to just enter into the fabric of the society (ignoring the fact that the way language was spoken was completely different then, and our modern way of speaking would be seen as odd and, among the more educated classes, likely rude and simpleminded), and the whole thing is just a grand romantic adventure. Even when she has difficulties, they are romantic adventurous difficulties rather than the mundane reality that if you were plucked out of time and placed in any of these time periods, especially as a woman, you were unlikely to have anywhere near that breezy experience.

[bmouse]

Ooof. I read Heyers myself sometimes but hell no would I want to live there...I'm a bit curious how you'd deal with the 'virginity' issue since it was so paramount back then and a modern twentysomething woman might not be. Also if I fell in love and agreed to marry someone while under the constraint of being stuck back in time with no hope of return and was then suddenly transported back to the land of cars, TV and at least less legislated sexism I would dump Mr. FromThePast like a burning coal and run screaming into the arms of my family/friends/college.

[katranna]

But Mr FromthePast is soooooo romantic!

The virginity issue and some other things are why I told a_priori that I actually avoided some of the even nastier elements of the times to make the story less upsetting than it might WELL be.

[antiscian]

Like.