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Welcome to our cottage, a guilty pleasure, if you will. As you may know, from poking around our main index, we read a lot, and a lot of different things. While the main section of our site concerns history, classic English literature, modern literature, Medieval, Renaissance art and history, mythology, etc, this section will house... well, everything else we dabble in, and are obsessed with, most notably American Literature of the 1800s and early 1900s, as well as modern Romance literature, and of course, Jane Austen. (A strange combination, I know. Bear with me.)

This section will be an on and off endeavor. For now, it's a bit sparse; but we do hope you enjoy what we have for you.

Looking for our webrings? Please click here

Looking for the fanlistings we've joined? They're here, while the Jane Austen fanlistings are here

Planned inclusions will be slow in coming, but for the coming year, we hope to add a bit more to this section. So keep an eye to the Cottage door. :) Until then, enjoy what we have for you...

America's Gilded Age Authors:

Henry James
Not technically a Romance author, his work epitomizes and pokes fun at a very Romantic age: the Gilded Age, even as he is considered the father of Gilded Age drawing room literature. He was mentor and muse to many of the authors that followed in his footsteps (most notably Edith Wharton), and he is considered the father of American literature. So this section would not be complete without a small tribute to his genius. As he is, and has been, for a longer time than we can point to (inside joke), a big influence on us, this is a section that will be added to as often as possible, obsessively, lovingly, I am sure. ;) Enjoy!

Edith Wharton
Well, we know she's not technically a Romance Writer, we consider her work (like that of the aforementioned Henry James) very romantic.

Modern Romantics

Paranormals:
If you haven't seen it, we've reviewed C.L. Wilson's Lady of Light and Shadow over at our Examiner page, as well as our review of her first novel Lord of the Fading Lands, and :) An Examiner "Q and A" we had with Ms. Wilson! :) Enjoy!

Likewise you'll also find Susan Kearney's latest novel, an Arthurian-esque scifi/paranormal romance entitled Lucan, over there

Romantic Suspense: New! If you've haven't seen it yet, we've got a review of Susan Crandall's new novel Sleep No More up for the Examiner. You can see it here. Enjoy!

A mini-review of
Witchling
By Yasmine Galenorn

A review of
Night Pleasures
By Sherrilyn Kenyon

A review of
Fantasy Lover
by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon Links

Susan Krinard
Susan Krinard overview

Susan Krinard Links

Susan Krinard: Book Reviews:
Touch of the Wolf

Once a Wolf (mini-review; also housed at our site: Immortal Grace)

Secret of the Wolf

Other Romance authors/styles:
Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts (very short) overview

Nora Roberts Links
Great sites and articles concerning, and by, Nora Roberts.

Nora Roberts: book reviews:
Captivated

Review of
Heaven and Earth
Book Two of Three Sisters Island Trilogy.
Possible spoilers included.

Review of
Dance Upon the Air
Book One of Three Sisters Island Trilogy.

Review of The Villa

More Miscellaneous authors
and titles: Historicals
Stephanie Laurens:
A review of Devil's Bride
Stephanie Laurens links

A review of Blythe Gifford's The Harlot's Daughter
(Harlequin, November 2007)

Susan Spencer Paul's The Prisoner Bride

Carol Finch's McCavett's Bride
The June 2007 Harlequin Historical:

Deborah Simmons' The Last Rogue
possible spoilers

updated! Other Recent Reads

And a little History:
The Regency Era
Links and other goodies concerning this romantic, and most popular, era. History, literature, art, and, of course, Regency Romances
still new, and will be, as everything else, added to as we can find goodies for it.

Jane Austen Links and stuff

A review of
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Other things:
Miscellaneous
This is a new page of quiz results and collections of adopted stuff.

General Romance & Writing Links

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Our spirit pages

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and don't forget to visit the other sections of our site:
Raven Queen's Domain
(our shrine to all other kinds of literature, past and present)
or
Immortal Grace
our shrine to classic gothic horror, Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, and all the immortal folks with which the classic gothic stories are filled. Enjoy!

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