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I also read Bringing Down the Duke and did not enjoy it and really wanted the book to be about the version of her life where she marries the very nice professor and maybe she falls in love with him and maybe she doesn't but either way she gets to fulfill her research ambitions, etc. But I think the tropes I am most interested in are not the tropes that most people are interested in.

The second book does sound at least more entertaining, but yeah, balancing Historical Tropes with Feminist Girlpower makes for some...interesting writing choices.

(I did keep expecting an explicit reveal that our heroine was Jewish -- her name is Hattie Greenfield, she comes from a large multinational merchant family with links to iirc the Ephrussi or some other famous real-world historical Jewish banking family, she's notably red-headed, there's an offhand reference to a grandparent having 'converted' to Anglicanism but it doesn't specify from what? Evie Dunmore I'm not sure why all this coding without actually saying it, what are you so nervous about?)

That's...weird.