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| Some great heroines and their heroes (alpha males all) |
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Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy
Emma and Mr. Knightley
Anne and Captain Wentworth |
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If you don’t know who they are, Jane Austen will have lived in vain. |
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| Beatrice and Benedict battle it out in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. (It's cheating, but if you're not up to reading the play, see the movie -- Emma Thompson is brilliant.) |
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| Amelia Peabody (with her trusty parasol, of course) and Radcliffe Emerson, Egyptologist extraordinaire and eccentric loving spouse. The wonderful creation of Elizabeth Peters. |
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| Anna Pigeon, not your average park ranger and Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna’s current - and I hope permanent - male person, created by Nevada Barr. |
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| Eve Dallas, one tough lady cop and Roarke (gorgeous, smart, dangerous and rich - what more could you ask for?) from the pen of (who else?) JD Robb. |
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| Stephanie Plum of the big hair and her brace of hunks, Joe Morelli and Ranger. (How come she gets two?) Brought to you straight from Jersey by Janet Evanovich. |
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| Lady Alice, "who prided herself on being well schooled in logic and possessed of intelligence" and her endearingly fearsome knight, Hugh the Relentless -- Amanda Quick’s charming Mystique. |
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| The Medieval World |
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| If you think that: No one bathed. Women couldn't own property. All women were brood mares, ignorant, illiterate. Everyone was shorter than we are. Richard the Third murdered the princes. Richard the Lionhearted was a good guy. Everyone died of the plague. No one had any fun. You're wrong! |
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| Here are some fun ways to learn the truth of the matter. |
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| Romantic Fiction:Humorous medieval historicals that prove that "humor" and "medieval" are not necessarily a contradiction in terms: |
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Honor's Splendor, The Bride, and Ransom by Julie Garwood
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Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros
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Mystique by Amanda Quick
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Wicked by Jill Barnett
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This is All I Ask by Lynn Kurland
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The Once and Future King by TH White (Camelot)
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| Film: |
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The Lion in Winter (Great cast! Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine, Peter O'Toole as Henry the Second, Richard Burton as Thomas Becket)
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Ivanhoe -- the A & E Television Network version.
Check out Cian Hinds as the villainous Templar, Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert (wow!)
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Robin Hood -- the rather tepid Costner version. Just to see Alan Rickman's hilarious turn as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail - A great spoof -- don't miss it.
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Camelot (Richard Burton & Julie Andrews cavort to a great score.)
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| Reading (for the studious amongst us): |
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Life in Medieval Times by Frances Gies and Joseph Gies
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A History of Everyday Things in England, Vol. 1 (1066-1499) by Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell
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Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
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Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500 by Henrietta Leyser
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (better get it in the Modern English version!)
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A nice gift for someone
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The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Book of Days, researched and edited by Sally Fox.
A Bullfinch Press Book, Little, Brown & Company
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Links
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Romance Writers of America
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Romantic Times
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Dorchester Publishing (Leisure & Love Spell)
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Ladies of Leisure (Leisure authors & their web sites)
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RomanceEverAfter.com/Interviews
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