Excuse me, AWESOME outfits. Read more
Kelly Faircloth
kellyfaircloth
Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.
Fixed! Sometimes you get hyphen weirdness when transporting something that’s formatted for book publication. Read more
They brought Samantha back though! Read more
literal lol at “more like eighteen hundred and bored to death.” Read more
yup! the MBA dude said they ordered her an old one special off Ebay. Read more
I just can’t see him as Prince Philip, not even a little bit. He’s missing that weird 20s-era Mills & Boon hero athletic staidness (I think it’s the 20s I’m thinking of) that Prince Philip has. Read more
He’s great but is he Prince Philip? I would argue no! Read more
Here’s another ad, from the May 1988 issue of Working Mother magazine, for what I believe was the first “colorstick” test.
the firehose can be a lot! Read more
FOREVER AMBER Read more
“At Night She Cries, While He Rides His Steed is a side-splitting satire that perfectly parodies romance novels and western dramas.” Read more
If you’d like to read a romance with a Jewish protagonist, by the way, Rose Lerner’s True Pretenses has gotten good reviews, and Sarah Wendell did a Hanukkah novella last year (chime in with any others, folks). Read more
To be clear, when I talk about smoldering reactionary piles of rubble, I mean the controversy that was this year’s Hugo awards. Read more
ugh but WOMEN though, am I right? Read more
oh yeah, to be clear, I love ye old mistresses. just saying, “women exist only in relation to men!!!” is an all-too-common theme in the way history is written. Read more
Oh good catch, I can certainly fix. As for whether it was dramatic, I think we just will have to differ on our definitions of dramatic! Read more
I bet they had a massive rat problem (another reason Britain was the worst posting in the Roman Empire) Read more
One day (actually never but just go with it) I’m going to blow an entire paycheck on weird-ass shit from Vermont Country Store. I FUCKING LOVE THAT PLACE. Read more