Strict orders to rest and not stress myself out with studies. Then I got married and we started a family-and I ended up on bedrest for months, waiting for Baby, on But I was immersed in graduate work, and though I had seen those "bodice rippers" in bookstores, I had never read one. In graduate school I studied art history-but secretly read Victoria Holt, Barbara Michaels, Elizabeth Peters and Mary Stewart. We moved and I went to high school in the DC area, and I hit a long phase of classic literature, and in college majored in art but took seminars in Melville and Lawrence and the Brontes and poetry. Mistress of Mellyn was probably my first romance, albeit gothic, and I read as many of her books-and books like hers-that I could find.
I worked my way from Ellen Tebbits and Pippi Longstocking to Jane Eyre and Ivanhoe and Treasure Island (Illustrated Classics for some of those, as I recall), and then I discovered Victoria Holt. I haunted the old library in our small town in Upstate NY, with its marble floors, tall windows and polished wooden bookshelves. We hope your enjoy this trip down our book-lined memory lane and we look forward to hearing what your first historical romance was! As you might imagine, we discovered that there was some overlap in our reading experiences but also plenty of difference. The Wenches were chatting online, as we tend to do, and one of the topics we got talking about was the first historical romances that we ever read. Nicola here, introducing this month’s Ask A Wench feature.
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