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I love Regency romances, but I am also quite picky about them. It's a well-known period with LOTS of resources, especially these days, so especially for professional work I don't give a lot of slack.
Which brings me to Bridgerton. I'm enjoying it!
Except that one of many issues is that they seem to think the Season--the pinnacle of London's social life for the nobility and upper gentry--was in the summer. Everyone in gauzy dresses outside on beautiful sunny days. The Duke marries Miss Bridgerton, and the new Duke and Duchess spend lots of time having sex outside at his country estate.
The problem is, that the season was winter. As in, the time when the weather was bad so you couldn't go out hunting, shooting, or fishing on your estate, and there weren't any agricultural decisions to make, so the Lord of the Manor didn't need to stay there to oversee them, and the weather was also too bad to travel far to visit your neighbors or go to house parties. There was nothing to do in the country during the winter, and so people who could afford it flocked to the cities, particularly to London, where even when the weather was bad you could still do things because you were only traveling a short distance across cobbled streets, not many miles across unpaved dirt which turns to mud when it rains.
So the Season stretched from November to May ... and even if we assume they got married at the very end of the season (which they didn't because it continues after they leave) May in England is still, um, a bit chillier and rainier than I would personally prefer for sex al fresco.
Just saying.
Which brings me to Bridgerton. I'm enjoying it!
Except that one of many issues is that they seem to think the Season--the pinnacle of London's social life for the nobility and upper gentry--was in the summer. Everyone in gauzy dresses outside on beautiful sunny days. The Duke marries Miss Bridgerton, and the new Duke and Duchess spend lots of time having sex outside at his country estate.
The problem is, that the season was winter. As in, the time when the weather was bad so you couldn't go out hunting, shooting, or fishing on your estate, and there weren't any agricultural decisions to make, so the Lord of the Manor didn't need to stay there to oversee them, and the weather was also too bad to travel far to visit your neighbors or go to house parties. There was nothing to do in the country during the winter, and so people who could afford it flocked to the cities, particularly to London, where even when the weather was bad you could still do things because you were only traveling a short distance across cobbled streets, not many miles across unpaved dirt which turns to mud when it rains.
So the Season stretched from November to May ... and even if we assume they got married at the very end of the season (which they didn't because it continues after they leave) May in England is still, um, a bit chillier and rainier than I would personally prefer for sex al fresco.
Just saying.
