#i stumbled on another obscure fluffy romance author
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The real difference between British and American Edwardian-era light fiction is that American stories have college girls. The British ones have girls who went to boarding school together, but it's a different vibe. The boarding school vibe is more juvenille--our parents sent us here, we've got to sneak around under the watchful eyes of our teachers, etc.--while the college girls chose to take their education to a higher level, and there's more of a sense that they have to use it out in the world. There's more energy to it. I don't know. It's just a thing.
#someone needs to take gutenberg away from me#i stumbled on another obscure fluffy romance author#i can't overemphasize how fluffy and generic this is#but also the american-ness gives it a very different flavor#main girl gets a visit from her college friends and there's just so much more energy and independence#than you'd see in british fiction from the same era#and i realized it's a pattern#i'd never consciously considered how far ahead america was in the realm of female education#dorothy l. sayers looking on in envy#books#history is awesome
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