S02.12: Lord of Scoundrels: Reel or be Reeled

It may be Thanksgiving week in the US, but that didn’t stop us from recording a monster episode about one of our (and all of Romance’s) favorite books of all time! It’s Lord of Scoundrels week! We’re talking gloves and fans and prologues and why Jessica is one of the best heroines of all time! All that, and Sarah is on a rant about Byron…so don’t miss it!Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in your favorite podcasting platform — and while you’re there, please leave us a like or a review!In two weeks, we’re moving across the pond to Beverly Jenkins’s Indigo, with one of Sarah’s favorite heroines ever—Hester Wyatt, Underground Railroad conductor! Read Indigo at Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or your local indie. Show NotesLord of Scoundrels has its own&nbsp;wikipedia page, which in case you're curious, is kind of unusual.Just look at this gorgeous&nbsp;Lord of Scoundrels embroidery.If you haven't listened to&nbsp;our episode on Dreaming of You, what are you waiting for?Maybe you want to find out&nbsp;what you first ordered in your Amazon account.Jessica Trent is not a&nbsp;Mary Sue.Erin from&nbsp;Heaving Bosoms&nbsp;is famous for&nbsp;not liking epilogues, but it's a pretty good reason why. But&nbsp;prologues are fine.You've been lawyered&nbsp;is from How I Met Your Mother.Sarah wrote the prologue to a new edition of&nbsp;The Transformation of Philip Jettan.Maybe&nbsp;watch out when taking DNA tests.&nbsp;Or not.Stronzo! And maybe&nbsp;some more&nbsp;if you're interested.Love's Sweet Arrow&nbsp;is a romance-only bookstore in the Chicago suburbs. It's awesome.Gentle Rogue&nbsp;started too late.More about Russian&nbsp;religous icons, but maybe you want to&nbsp;buy some.The gloves scene in the&nbsp;Age of Innocence movie.&nbsp;All that repressed longing from&nbsp;Daniel Day Lewis! In the book, it's&nbsp;this chapter&nbsp;where Newland Archer "bent over, unbuttoned her tight brown glove, and kissed her palm as if he had kissed a relic."All&nbsp;about&nbsp;Beelzebub.If you want to know about demon seals and&nbsp;the Wroth brothers, then listen to season one of Fated Mates.What does it even mean to&nbsp;dance a waltz&nbsp;in the Continental style? Probably not this&nbsp;Continental-style.The Beverly Jenkins book where the heroine shoots the hero is&nbsp;Tempest.Reading the banns&nbsp;and a list of&nbsp;people who were married&nbsp;at&nbsp;Saint George&nbsp;Hanover Square.You'll be shocked to know that&nbsp;Jen has some theories about internal vs. external conflict.When they're at the wrestling match, Dain says his friend could have "stayed comfortably at home and&nbsp;pumped&nbsp;his wife."She Walks in Beauty Like the Night&nbsp;is a glorious poem, but that doesn't make&nbsp;Byron&nbsp;any less of a&nbsp;scumbag. That&nbsp;Ada Lovelace&nbsp;was Byron's daughter is kind of wild, but we're glad she's known for&nbsp;being her own person. Despite Sarah trying to create an&nbsp;authorship question&nbsp;for Byron, that's not really a thing. There's no such person as the Duke of Summerville. Jen just made that up.If you're interested in The Romantics, you can find&nbsp;Jen's old college syllabus here. Lots of Wordsworth, but no Bryon, which is just fine. But we still love the way Loretta Chase used&nbsp;Don Juan&nbsp;in the text of Lord of Scoundrels.Friend of the pod Adriana Herrera&nbsp;has been reading&nbsp;Lord of Scoundrels&nbsp;for the&nbsp;first time&nbsp;and her&nbsp;tweets about&nbsp;it are&nbsp;honestly the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ladrianaherrera/status/1199494625637142540" rel="noopener noreferrer"...