What level of society would you chose to be born into in the Regency? This book is deeply interested in class and specifically dismantling the hero’s class snobbery, which I greatly appreciated.
However, I do believe I’ve always written heroines with modern sensibilities.
certainly I use more “colloquial” language in my YA novels and contemporaries. You write contemporary romance and YA novels in addition to historical romance-do you think your authorial voice changes in each genre? I’ve always known I would write a story around this premise some day. I was never able to shake the existence of such a thing.
I know I stumbled upon the historical tidbit some time during the course of researching (a long time ago), and I found it quite shocking to learn that such a practice was legal in Britain as late as the early 1900s. You know, I cannot recall the first moment I learned of “wife-selling,” but as a history major and writer of historical romance I’ve always read research books-especially about British history. Where did you first learn about bride auctions, and when did you decide to use that practice as the premise for a romance novel? We talked to Jordan about the historical practice of bride auctions, power dynamics in historical romance and why she wants to write a book inspired by John Tucker Must Die. However, a quick Google search revealed that bride auctions were a legal and common practice for decades, affording lower class citizens with an alternative to the far more immoral action of divorce.Īlyse is purchased and married to Marcus, Duke of Autenberry, an upstanding nobleman whose life has steadily imploded during the first two books of Jordan’s current series, The Rogue Files. Sophie Jordan’s The Duke Buys a Bride begins with a scene so seemingly outlandish, this reader believed there was no basis for it in the historical record: Heroine Alyse Bell is taken to the square of her tiny village and sold in a bride auction so that her much older husband can then marry another woman.
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