I'm going to confess that Vicinus's Intimate Friends is becoming a bit of a slog. (Did you notice I failed to get a blog up last week?) The material is becoming more and more literary critisicm and less biography. And there's a fair amount of psychological analysis that feels at odds with the historic context of the subjects. Or maybe I'm just going through a reading slump. Two more chapters. And then maybe I'll throw out my plans for the next publication and hunt through my shelves for something I can get excited about.
In the mean time, I'm having a lot of fun with the fulfillment of the auction item I donated to Romancing the Runoff. Per the winner's request, I'm putting together a historic guide to writing f/f relationships in the Regency era. Eventually I'd like to do a number of focused guides of this sort (and friends are convincing me to save them for publication and not just give them away on the blog, on the theory that people won't value them unless they pay for them).
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