New Heyer story: "Natural"

[resonant]

Continuing my trend of only writing in fandoms with twelve or fewer members, I've posted a new story to my website, based on Georgette Heyer's novel The Foundling.

Natural
Gilly/Gideon -- NC-17 -- 3,300 words
Once again, Gilly fixes everything.
Warnings, if any (highlight to read): No particular warning.

Thanks to astolat and Tradescant for beta.

Comments

[commodorified]

I cannot IMAGINE how I failed to find this sooner; it is exceeding charming, and so extremely in voice that I fear me you have temporarily disabled all my contemporaty vocabulary entirely.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford (and their great and good friend Mr Landseer) would have approved, and so do I. :-)

[resonant]

Oh, dear, I read this comment but didn't reply to it. So sorry!

The Bedford and Landseer thing sounds like an interesting story is hinted at; I googled, but only got the Duchess's affair. Any links?

Glad you liked the story, and doubly glad I didn't screw up the voice!

[commodorified]

No links offhand, but there's an excellent biography: Mistress of the Arts: The Passionate Life of Georgina, Duchess of Bedford, Trethewey, Rachel.

The three of them seem to have ended up as great friends: Landseer may have fathered one of her children, which seems to have fazed the Duke not at all, and he seems to have more or less run tame in their house and at their hunting lodge for decades.

There are some charming sketches by him of the Duke alone and with Georgina in the book. You can see the real affection between the men in every line. It's a ripping good story, and it expanded my view of the sorts of things Regency society was prepared to accept so long as no undue fuss occurred.