Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency Geneva Lee life’s moving pieces bring rival

life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart

desire flares into passion

But the more she gets to know him

Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother

and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency Geneva Lee life’s moving pieces bring rivalDiscover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history until now. Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white,