to come up with some tortured heroines. Let’s see have you read...
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers 1850’s California. She’s a prostitute, with issues rather than a heart of gold. He’s religious, a virgin, and a farmer.
I believe Texas Star by Deana James Old west Texas (surprising, eh?). She’s a rancher, whose abusive husband is alive, but in a wheelchair. There’s a reason her nickname is the Diamondback. She’s in her late thirties and has a teenaged daughter. Enter mysterious stranger. Equal issues for everyone.
Once an Angel by Teresa Medieros Late 1800s New Zealand. The little princess was left to stew for about 10 years at that hellish academy for girls and she isn’t quite such a little princess anymore.
The Crystal Heart by Lisa Gregory Despite one cringe worthy, yes, this book was written in the late 70s scene, interesting book. 1776, London to Boston. She’s a fashionable society jade. Painted face, hair up to there, gowns out to here. He’s a frumpy lawyer from those pesky colonies out to argue for taxation with representation.
As to the vast American Space Frontier – it does seem a bit of a failure of the imagination. Possibly because so much early Sci Fi focused on the Tech and not the cultural aspects. It’s really only now as the genre has matured (and we get farther away from the Cold War. Of course, space is American, grr, rattle the saber/ray gun, damn Ruskies) that you get a more multicultural focus. Of course, you still get a number in the, insert exotic clothes=multicultural variety and/or look what strange customs these strange people have, but as, I believe Sturgeon remarked, 90% of any genre isn’t very good.
Although, you make me curious to have someone familiar with India and the Middle East read some of Putney’s other 1850s England Colonial period novels for perspective. Then again I believe a character in one of her novels, for all that I quite enjoy them, refer to asbestos trousers, which hmmm 1812, I don’t think so.
Hmm…now you’ve put me on my metal
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
1850’s California. She’s a prostitute, with issues rather than a heart of gold. He’s religious, a virgin, and a farmer.
I believe Texas Star by Deana James
Old west Texas (surprising, eh?). She’s a rancher, whose abusive husband is alive, but in a wheelchair. There’s a reason her nickname is the Diamondback. She’s in her late thirties and has a teenaged daughter. Enter mysterious stranger. Equal issues for everyone.
Once an Angel by Teresa Medieros
Late 1800s New Zealand. The little princess was left to stew for about 10 years at that hellish academy for girls and she isn’t quite such a little princess anymore.
The Crystal Heart by Lisa Gregory
Despite one cringe worthy, yes, this book was written in the late 70s scene, interesting book. 1776, London to Boston. She’s a fashionable society jade. Painted face, hair up to there, gowns out to here. He’s a frumpy lawyer from those pesky colonies out to argue for taxation with representation.
As to the vast American Space Frontier – it does seem a bit of a failure of the imagination. Possibly because so much early Sci Fi focused on the Tech and not the cultural aspects. It’s really only now as the genre has matured (and we get farther away from the Cold War. Of course, space is American, grr, rattle the saber/ray gun, damn Ruskies) that you get a more multicultural focus. Of course, you still get a number in the, insert exotic clothes=multicultural variety and/or look what strange customs these strange people have, but as, I believe Sturgeon remarked, 90% of any genre isn’t very good.
Although, you make me curious to have someone familiar with India and the Middle East read some of Putney’s other 1850s England Colonial period novels for perspective. Then again I believe a character in one of her novels, for all that I quite enjoy them, refer to asbestos trousers, which hmmm 1812, I don’t think so.