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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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It's worse than that I am talking about stuff like adding movie references to the book using modern terms that were even around till after the 70s. I kid you not it gets worse. You also have heroines acting like modern women and there is no consequence for it. No one bats an eye at their scandalous behavior. In fact more than often they are cheered on inside the book.
It's like a bad Disney movie. I call them fairytale Romance because there is no way it could have happen in that time period. The Authors are not even trying anymore. Almost all historicals have to be set in Regency time era, there has to be a Duke hero in it somewhere.
Harlequin is one of few publisher's that still publishes historicals that are set in different eras. They don't use gimmicks like Avon does.