![]() In his pain and delirium, Henry feels the soothing touch of an angel. Henry Eldridge, Marquess of Riverton suffers burns to his face and arm when one wing of his Buckinghamshire estate, Blakewood Hall, is set aflame. Like Brontë’s Eyre, the hero’s near-death by fire changes him. The Improper Bride possesses Eyre-like tendencies, as any cross-class romance owes its raison d’être to the near-bigamous fraught relationship between a dissipated aristocrat and mousy governess. And yet, the fairy-tale-like mood of Maxton’s version makes it more palatable. Least favourite because, at least in Regency or Victorian Britain where most of these romances are set, was as unlikely as it was scandalous. The scandal informing it is one of Miss Bates’s least favourite tropes, the cross-class historical romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily Maxton’s The Improper Bride is the fifth Regency romance in the Sisters of Scandal series. ![]()
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