It does not seem fair, because it was I who found the necklace, after all

[sovay]

The guinea drops: Naomi Novik's Temeraire is not an Aubrey-and-Maturin, but a Regency romance.

This revelation brought to you courtesy of Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian (1940) and a low-grade fever. I am sure everyone else has already noticed. I'm going back to bed.

Comments

[rosefox]

Dragons == women is much more obvious in the later books. I still like them, but you know, I'd like them more if there were also more women being women, or at least some suffragette meeting Temeraire and saying explicitly "Oh! Dragons and women have it much the same!".

[sovay]

Dragons == women is much more obvious in the later books.

(I have read all the books that currently exist; I just synecdochized them to save time. That may have been unclear.)

I'd like them more if there were also more women being women

How do you feel about characters like Jane and Emily Roland, or Catherine Harcourt? Or do they not count because they are women within the Corps and therefore not bound by historical rules of society (no stigma attached to children out of wedlock, girls preferred to boys, etc.)?

Or female dragons, like Iskierka?

[rosefox]

I like them all, but there are very few of them--I didn't say "any women being women", but "more women being women"--and they do seem to get a free pass on common womanly problems of the era.