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by Barbara Davies
by Barbara Davies
Frederica and the Viscountess
June 1815. Joanna, Viscountess Norland arrives at her brother’s country residence, Thornbury Park. Her notoriety and recent exploits on the war torn Continent precede her, and her presence in the quiet neighborhood causes quite a stir.
At twenty-seven, Frederica Bertram is not only having to endure her mother's reminders that she's getting past her prime, she's also being pressured to encourage the attentions of the Viscountess's dull brother-in-law.
Complications arise when a friend from Joanna’s checkered past, Lord Peregrine, takes a fancy to Frederica’s younger sister. Frederica and the Viscountess join forces to stop a potential scandal and discover they have more in common than anyone would suspect.
The Adventures of Murdering Meg
It's been five years since plantation owner Thomas Digges and his sons left Margaret Etherege for dead. Now a notorious pirate, Murdering Meg is ready to exact her revenge on her former master. And when a brigantine sets sail for England, with Digges’s nubile daughter Alice and her dowry on board, Meg decides to relieve its captain of his valuable cargo.
"The book’s homages to Jane Austen novels are endearingly transparent. Mr. Dunster is the tedious Mr. Collins and Lord Peregrine’s attempted seduction of Amelia is a close echo of Lydia Bennet’s willing elopement with Wickham. Viscountess Norland, on the other hand, is a trope solely belonging to f/f historicals: the scandalous cross-dressing devil-may-care aristocratically-privileged icon of Not Like Other Girls. Frederica and the Viscountess is a delightfully tropey addition to the genre." — Alpennia
“Davies does an excellent job of emulating Austen’s style and mannerisms in the story of the viscountess. The influence of Pride and Prejudice will be obvious to any reader who is familiar with that book. The nice thing about the book is that Davies stays true to the period in dealing with the love affair between the women.” — Lynne Pierce , Piercing Fiction
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Nuance
154 pp. ● 5.5x8.5
$12.95 (pb) ● $7.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-24-3 (pb)
FICTION – Lesbian
FICTION – Historical
England – Social life and customs – 19th century – Fiction
Barbara Davies was born in Birmingham, England, twenty minutes after her twin sister. She grew up in the Midlands, managed to scrape a BA from York University, worked in computing in Surrey, then moved to Gloucestershire where she’s now a writer and a book reviewer for Starburst. Barbara published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various genre magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Khimairal Ink, Neo-Opsis, and nanobison, and in the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound, Crossings, and F/SF Volume 1. The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award.
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