What does the Regency period in English history have in common with the English medieval period? Absolutely nothing. Except that I write in both genres, and I love them both. In the Regency period, manners make the man and the woman, and in my Regency fiction, I love seeing how far my characters can push against the edges of those rules without making them give. Catherine Middlebrook in HOW TO SEDUCE A SCOT wears bonnets and gloves, and keeps her pretty curls tucked neatly away. She speaks modestly and maintains her decorum until she meets the Waters family, and learns the meaning of passion from the handsome Alexander, and the joy of throwing knives from his sister, Mary Elizabeth. Now, in the medieval period, manners were not considered particularly important. In the lives of kings and queens, politics ruled every waking moment. The personal really was political, when people like Eleanor of Aquitaine spent their lives manipulating their family members to ga...
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