Oh, yes - I'd forgotten Drusilla's faint. She does it in a very stoical way, however, and it is clear that the circumstances are extreme. I was going to say Sarah Thane but I think she had concussion which is not quite the same thing.
You're quite right that the moral depth of Austen isn't present in Heyer, even in her more thoughtful books. One of the problems with her properly historical books is the lack of humour, I think. So in some ways, it was probably a good thing that there were constraints around her writing, otherwise she might only ever have produced My Lord John and its putative sequels.
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Date: 2009-03-21 11:16 am (UTC)You're quite right that the moral depth of Austen isn't present in Heyer, even in her more thoughtful books. One of the problems with her properly historical books is the lack of humour, I think. So in some ways, it was probably a good thing that there were constraints around her writing, otherwise she might only ever have produced My Lord John and its putative sequels.