Why Do Dukes Fall in Love? by Megan Frampton

The biggest reason is Richard Armitage, who plays John Thornton.

Margaret is aware of his class, yes, but she is just inherently different from him, and conscious of that, at first preferring the Southern ways to the Northern ones, but gradually coming to realize that she wants to be more Northern, if it means helping people and being useful.īut that wouldn’t be the biggest reason. Thornton is acutely aware of Margaret’s being of a different class, plus he isn’t sure how he feels about speculating in love (we know how he feels about speculation in business). After all, it has both types of conflict-Mr. I’d like to say that is the biggest reason I have an annual viewing party of North and South, based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel. Then there’s the internal factors of the respective prides and prejudices. Darcy are in different classes, different worlds, and then Elizabeth’s family is taken down even more when her sister does something to ruin all of them. If you examine some of the most iconic love stories in classic literature you’ll find that the most lasting ones have both types of conflict. Things that make it seem impossible for the hero and heroine to fall in love and stay in love. Things like, “he has a job I hate,” or “I can’t stop focusing on revenge long enough to let myself fall in love,” or things like that. The best love stories have a tension in them that is a combination of both internal and external factors.

I want to talk about the North and South miniseries. But I’m not going to talk about my book, because honestly, I find self-promotional author posts to be snooze-worthy, and I don’t want to put anyone to sleep.

Thanks to Loretta for having me here today! I have a new release titled The Duke’s Guide to Correct Behavior, and it is a governess/duke romance with lots of humor and hopefully some excellent sexual tension. You can find more of this approach on Megan's website as well as on Heroes & Heartbreakers, where she’s Community Manager. I invited her to talk about her recently released Avon historical romance, The Duke’s Guide to Correct Behavior, but Megan did something else-and her intro explains, in part, why Megan & I are friends: She wants to give readers something a bit different, like posts about the things that move and inspire her. Author Megan Frampton has graciously consented to help me launch a new phase in this blog’s career: Interesting Stuff Not About Me.

Why Do Dukes Fall in Love? by Megan Frampton