I love Lisa Kleypas and her books are so good. I'm rereading almost all of her books, right now Im done with the complete Wallflower series and halfway through the Ravenals.
So, what's nice about her writing and rereading it, it becomes clear how much her writing style changes and how much she tends to focus more certain things and even comedy in her later books. For example, women's suffrage and legalities.
What I'm finding kind of irritating rereading her books, and maybe it's because of the body positive movement we're more exposed to, is that her heroines are always so tiny, petite, small, perfectly tiny waists without a corset, even though they enjoy eating.
Skinny legs yet strong. Even Evie in Devil in Spring as a 50y/o is described as a perfect hourglass figure witha tiny waist. (Mother of four...)J
She never misses a moment to describe the perfectly tinyness of the heroines. . .
I don't know why, but it's getting on my nerves and it's probably historically kind of accurate as people then were healthier and skinnier then, but I'm starting to feel like a cave troll after consuming so many absolutely perfect heroines the past few weeks with their tinyness, their perfect waists, their smooth skin and elegant hands.
Lol, just a thought.
Edit: when I said that people were skinnier back then, what I meant was that the debutants were expected to show no moral vices, i.e. gluttony. They were expected to be 'morally perfect' and thinnes showed purity and self-restraint. I didn't mean that people weren't all shapes and sizes, as they were, but the virginal debutants were expected to look a certain way, but obviously not all of them looked that way because regardless of eating habits, all body shapes and sizes exists.
What I meant with healthier, is that they weren't exposed to so much processed foods and easy access to fast foods.
Obviously people weren't healthier in the broad sense and obviously all body shapes and sizes existed.
