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Originally Posted by Britomart
...Carla Kelly's historicals. They are set in the rather over-used Regency period, but they are most emphatically not about dukes etc., but Beau Crusoe is about a scientist...
If you like unusual settings in historicals, Elizabeth Lane's On the Wings of Love is about aviation in early 20th cent. USA.
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Scientists and aviation are definite bonuses, so I'll go have a look at those, thanks!
A little iffy about the generally standard post-Tudor-to-Victorian UK/Ireland and US settings, since they tend to over-populate regular historical fiction (and historical mysteries) as well. Something a bit more uncommon like Renaissance Italy or Ancient Greece or feudal Japan would be nice, but I don't expect those are popular enough that there'd be many books written in them in the first place, much less good quality ones which also suit my preferences.
I'll try sampling the Judith James, though they don't quite look like my kind of thing.