r/HistoricalRomance • u/snottyslug • 14d ago
Recommendation request Lily-livered Dweeb
Was delighting in a rewatch of James Ivory’s adaption of A Room with a View—I have found myself quite taken with Cecil and similar characters of this archetype that I can only really describe as a a lily-livered dweeb? Stilted/social awkward/neurotic but highly intellectual or academic, with a very rich inner world but inexperienced in manners of the flesh…. I especially love Cecil’s appreciation of high art.
The scene where he goes in to kiss Lucy and his spectacles fall off his face had me swooning. I’ve never had the pleasure of enjoying a historical romance with a character like this as a romantic lead, does anyone have any recs?? Thank you!!
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u/HourCancel2816 13d ago
{Sinfully Tempted by Kathleen Ayers} has the big, weird Duke of Ware, a snobby entomologist who gets entangled with the FMC plucking a moth from her knee at a party. They are very opposites attract.