{"id":250,"date":"2004-02-07T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=250"},"modified":"2004-02-07T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T16:06:14","slug":"kelly_carla_mis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/02\/kelly_carla_mis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly, Carla: Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And now for something completely different: Carla Kelly’s Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career<\/cite><\/strong> (recently reprinted with Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand<\/cite>). This is a Regency romance, via an author recommendation<\/a> from Melymbrosia on LiveJournal.<\/p>\n

This was charming, warm fun; I can tell it’s flawed and I don’t really care. Partly I’m well-disposed towards it because it was clearly written by an author who’s read and loved Gaudy Night<\/cite><\/a>—not, I hasten to add, that they are particularly comparable works, except that they’re set at Oxford and are suffused with a love of reading and a respect for intellectual endeavor. Partly it’s because it takes the plot furniture of the genre and tweaks it: the “girl in disguise as a boy” doesn’t fool the hero for a minute; the “noble hero comes in and fixes lives of everyone in heroine’s family” is nicely modulated; and the plot-driving secondary characters are given touches of nuance. So yeah, the plot’s overstuffed, and it’s anachronistic, and there’s bits of stupid deception, but the characters are just nice<\/em> people<\/em> and I really enjoyed reading about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now for something completely different: Carla Kelly’s Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career (recently reprinted with Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand). This is a Regency romance, via an author recommendation from Melymbrosia on LiveJournal. This was charming, warm fun; I can tell it’s flawed and I don’t really care. Partly I’m well-disposed towards it because it … <\/p>\n

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