Thinking Straight

Episode 14: Rules for Heiresses by Amalie Howard


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Good day, lords and ladies… in this episode, Lena and Nadine dive into their first true historical romance novel of the pod, complete with a classic bodice-ripper style cover, high-class Victorian English slang, and an unsurprising but still disappointing dearth of respect for women. 

Could a steamboat cross the Atlantic Ocean in six days in 1863? Could a woman ever possibly get away with sporting a pixie cut as a Victorian duchess? And what is a hoyden, anyway? Apologies to the historical romance buffs out there, but we are way out of our depth.


The trans Pride & Prejudice retelling Nadine mentioned is Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa.


Thanks, as always, to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Deoxys Beats⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for our intro and outro music, "RedLips."

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Thinking StraightBy Lena Wilson and Nadine Santoro