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The Secret Diaries Of Miss Miranda Cheever
''The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever'' is a historical romance novel written by Julia Quinn. It won the 2008 RITA Award for Best Regency Historical Romance and was nominated for ''Romantic Times'' 2007 Historical Romance of the Year. The novel reached number 3 on the ''New York Times'' Bestseller List and number 4 on the ''USA Today'' bestseller list. Background ''The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever'' was written by Julia Quinn and published by Avon books on June 26, 2007. It was Quinn's first novel in eight years that did not feature characters from the Bridgerton family. The novel is a quintessential Regency romance. The novel is the first in a trilogy Quinn calls The Bevelstoke Series. According to her website, Quinn first wrote the novel in 1994, just after she sold her first novel, ''Splendid''. In 2007, she spent two or three months revising the manuscript. Some scenes, including the prologue, are fairly untouched from the original version, while others, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Romance
Historical romance is a broad category of mass-market fiction focusing on romantic relationships in historical periods, which Walter Scott helped popularize in the early 19th century. Varieties Viking These books feature Vikings during the Dark Ages or Middle Ages. Heroes in Viking romances are typical alpha males who are tamed by their heroines. Most heroes are described as "tall, blonde, and strikingly handsome." Using the Viking culture allows novels set in these time periods to include some travel, as the Vikings were "adventurers, founding and conquering colonies all over the globe." In a 1997 poll of over 200 readers of Viking romances, Johanna Lindsey's ''Fires of Winter'' was considered the best of the subgenre. The subgenre has fallen out of style, and few novels in this vein have been published since the mid-1990s. Medieval These romances are typically set between 938 and 1485. Women in the medieval time periods were often considered as no more than property who were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |