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I agree with you about lack of research in historical novels, but that's not just something that affects the romance genre. I was recently reading a novel set in the Napoleanic Wars (1790 or so), in which people went around saying "hello" to each other. Can any author of historical novels really be so ignorant as not to know that "Hello" is a late 19th century coinage, whose first recorded usage was in 1883? Amazing.
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