Hold Fast
Show Notes
Hold Fast is a medieval Scottish romance and MacArthur invites and garners a lot of comparisons to perhaps the most famous romance novelist who wrote this subgenre: Julie Garwood. Hold Fast is the story of a woman who was handfasted to an abusive laird and once free of that arrangement, assumes she will never be in a relationship with a man again. Her love interest Ewan is laird of a nearby, rival clan whose lost members of his family in ways that made him anxious to fall in love, so he similarly assumes that he will never marry. Both assumptions get complicated when they meet each other and are immediately drawn together. Reni from @reniesan joined us for this episode and chose this book for us.
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Books Referenced
Ransom by Julie Garwood
Saving Grace by Julie Garwood
The Bride by Julie Garwood
A Year and a Day by Virginia Henley
In Bed with a Stranger by Mary Wine
To Have and to Hold by Patricia Gaffney
The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon
Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaught
For My Lady’s Heart by Laura Kinsale
Works Cited
From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth edited by Ian Brown. Chels referenced chapter one’s essay by Hugh Cheape, “Gheibhte breacain charnaid (‘Scarlet tartans would be got. . .’): the Re-invention of Tradition.”
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
The Scottish Wars of Independence - podcast by Dr. Michael Brown
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