[LMB] QOTD #7: Emotional genre, re: ACC dedication (Sat. Mar. 1st)

[Dorian E. Gray]

Peter asked...

> But I have read nothing by anyone named Brontë, and my Heyer reading is 
> spotty.
> Did she write one involving a young girl who dressed as a man, fought 
> duels and
> everything, and ended up marrying a duke?

That *could* be "The Masqueraders".  Brother and sister, each masquerading 
as a member of the opposite sex, in Georgian London.  Sister nearly fights a 
duel in her role as a bloke, but is "saved" from having to do so by the 
hero, who picks a fight with her putative opponent, forces another duel on 
him, and wounds him such that he can't fight Our Heroine as scheduled.  (The 
hero does not know for sure at this point that Our Heroine is indeed a girl, 
but he strongly suspects it.)  The hero isn't actually a duke, but he is a 
nobleman of some description.

It's a very fun book, even if it isn't the one you're thinking of.

Until the sky falls on our heads...

Dorian.
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