I read your entry after writing mine, and it was funny how similar our thoughts were. : )
also making an attempt to give her more credit, I wonder if Broster was perhaps trying to portray the culture of the time she was writing about in more detail, and failed to get the moral balance right?
I suppose that's possible, although of course it's only one aspect of 18th century culture. And I can't help suspecting that somehow she also likes this sort of stuff, considering several of her young heroines are described in similar ways? If so, it's funny how her id can in some respects be so close to mine, and in other respects so far away...
There's no trace of it in Juliana, though, even though she's also young. ETA: In general it's something that feels like it comes more with her later books? Olivia, Nest, and Bride are far more innocent and "pure" than Raymonde, Valentine and Juliana. And there's less slashy content in those later books as well. Does she just get less interesting as a writer (from the perspective of what I would like to read about) later on?
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also making an attempt to give her more credit, I wonder if Broster was perhaps trying to portray the culture of the time she was writing about in more detail, and failed to get the moral balance right?
I suppose that's possible, although of course it's only one aspect of 18th century culture. And I can't help suspecting that somehow she also likes this sort of stuff, considering several of her young heroines are described in similar ways? If so, it's funny how her id can in some respects be so close to mine, and in other respects so far away...
There's no trace of it in Juliana, though, even though she's also young. ETA: In general it's something that feels like it comes more with her later books? Olivia, Nest, and Bride are far more innocent and "pure" than Raymonde, Valentine and Juliana. And there's less slashy content in those later books as well. Does she just get less interesting as a writer (from the perspective of what I would like to read about) later on?