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The one where brother and sister cross dress to avoid prosecution after the failed Jacobite uprising, and both fall in love. I liked this one. You’re all shocked, I know. It’s one of those uncomplicated, surfacey likes that is untroubled by Heyer’s usual classism or period sexism (the girl dressing as a man requires so much bravery, you see, whereas the man dressing as a woman requires, uh, a dress. Sideways brain leap to what I was reading a few years ago about medical sexism in the gender reassignment surgery field – going MTF is pretty easy, obviously, it’s just a vagina how hard is that, but FTM, well, I mean, you have to make a penis and that’s complicated and delicate and important. End digression). I liked this because of Heyer’s usual attention to the depth and importance of the platonic relationships. And more keenly, because of one of the romances, wherein it is proven once and for all that courtship between a man and a woman dressed as a man looks exactly like period-appropriate close male friendship. Of course I liked it.

2023-06-21 06:41