For every woman who has hidden the cover of her book, watch this:
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A romance novelist explores how to be a heroine in real life.
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People say it to me all the time, “Why do you read that rubbish”? I tell them, until you’ve read a romance novel, don’t judge. To me, reading a romance novel lets me escape to a different time and place where people lived, laughed and loved and were finding their way to each other.
Well said, Diane!
Yes, I am! I read pretty much anything including classic, literature and romance novels. The only danger I can perceive is that they are dangerously good! I like them intense, romantic and emotional. It’s a choice I gladly choose
Thank you for sharing this great video which I just posted to my twitter (@FieryNa).
“Dangerously good.” Now that’s a quotable quote!
I love this video…AND I am an unapologetic ROMANCE NOVEL CONSUMER since 1974!! I love the racy covers…but I read them for the HISTORY LESSONS! LOL
I have been reading romance novels for many years and the one thing I love the most about it is that it makes you forget the tensions and stresses of day to day life and takes you to a different world…you can imagine being the hero or the heroine (lol) conquering the world in any time period the book is written in…such a great feeling that you are not ordinary….
I love romance novels so much. Everywhere I go I always brings one romance novel to keep me company. I hate it when people told me I just read rubbish and nonsense things. They often mocks my hobby as a nerd hobby. I said to them and to myself it is them that do not understand the beauty of life and romance. Every romance novels carry it’s own wisdoms and the life experience that we can learn by reading it and understand it. Cheers Aretha
Romance novels are such a great way to unwind. I think it comes from knowing everything will end up a-ok in the end so we can relax into the story. Cheers and happy reading!
I’m proud to share this on Facebook! I love my romance novels…
Hi just share this on Facebook n I am So proud w my romance novels
Where else can one reliably find a Happier Ever After ? ! I love romance novels, and I love introducing my friends to them as well.
Thanks for sharing, y’all!
I’m not for or against romance novels. I don’t mind either way. But I would be more impressed with your vid if you’d bother to get your facts straight. Perhaps looked beyond Victorian stereotypes even. The Stamp Act and the Window tax and every other bloody tax of the period to which you refer were brought in to pay for the interminable wars against France. They were the result of a bunch of blokes looking about for anything taxable and–in the words of an earlier treasurer–working at taking the down from a goose’s chest without making it squawk. (They also taxed hair powder.)
The British press at the dawn of the romance novel–let’s call it Mrs. Radcliffe’s day–was the most free in the world. It was so preposterously free that if a journalist got wind of a military offensive against the French, or of the Fleet’s plans against the French, they’d publish the plans in full in the newspapers–which is how half the time Napoleon knew what the British intended. He’d read them in our own newspapers–which he had imported for that sole purpose.
Georgian and Regency education for women was as good or bad as that of the male’s. (Read Amanda Vickery’s rather splendid volume A Gentleman’s Daughter if you doubt it.) It’s only with the Victorians and particularly Prince Albert that there is a rise in the belief that if one educates a woman too much, her brain will explode.
Before that, reading was encouraged. Hookham’s Lending Library was one of Regency London’s favourite haunts. Though it may have helped with the reading thing in that they also sold hats.
Best–MM
Dear M.M.,
You’re right, the topics of romances and reading are vast, and have been discussed for centuries–even dating back to The Tale Of Genji in the early 11th century. However, I chose to focus my research on a particular time period, as stated in the video and the book (otherwise I would have never finished the research).
There are, of course, many interpretations when it comes to history and literature (and, well, everything) and only so many one can drill down on. For a lengthier (and footnoted) explanation of the ideas in the video, check out the book. I have also posted the list of works cited,[http://www.mayarodale.com/books/dangerousbooks/works-cited/] so anyone can review the sources upon which I based my ideas.
Thank you for pointing out that the subject is vast and ripe for further study and interpretation!
Best wishes,
Maya