I have to say, dogs and horses are great audiences, apart from their tendency to drool occasionally. Family legend has it that I used to spend hours playing in the sand pit, with a dog on either side of me and Rocka the horse leaning over me, his head just touching my shoulder, while I told them stories. I certainly hope so.The interview also includes the news that Gracie has written a novelization of the first six episodes of the first season of the television drama, "The Tudors" - this was released in the US last November.I've always loved stories. I believe that as long as people bring their own unique take on it and write fabulous new stories, the subgenre will continue to flourish. The actual Regency era has everything any novelist could want - glamour, war, lords and ladies, rituals, poverty, social climbing, great art and architecture, exclusivity, technological innovation, revolutions - there's no end to the fodder - and we can approach it as an insular society or in the wider world context.
I suspect the subgenre faltered when that world became too rigid and limited, but once people stepped outside of Almacks etc, it got a whole new lease of life. And the more good books and movies set in that era are published, the more that world becomes real and beloved and familiar to more people, so it's very easy to step into it. Do you think this will continue?Īnne Gracie: I think "our" Regency era is, in a way, a fictional world loosely created from history by a whole body of marvelous fiction. Why do you think we independent, republican colonials, whether Australian, Canadian, or Americans, love Regency historicals so much? Despite the glut of Regencies, predictions of the death of historicals, and now an expanding range of settings, the Regency historical subgenre is still doing just fine. Mary Jo Putney: You're our first Australian guest. Anne Gracie, author of the recent Regency historical novel The Stolen Princess, is interviewed by the Word Wenches.
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