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The Spanish Bride (1940)

par Georgette Heyer

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: "My favourite historical novelist." �?? Margaret Drabble A tale of love at first sight, based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. After marrying Harry Smith when she was 14 years old, Juana Smith "followed the drum," marching at the back of the troops along with the other wives and the officers' servants. Juana became a camp favorite, charming all with her youthful enthusiasm. In spite of the danger, Juana thrived on military life and her passionate, if somewhat stormy, relationship with Harry. Heyer's research encompassed every available diary from that time period, including Harry Smith's, and all of the Duke of Wellington's writings and dispatches. She brings alive military life during the Regency period, how the armies marched and fought, as well as how the nobility provided for its own comfort with servants, horses, dogs and furniture.… (plus d'informations)

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Much of the book is about the Peninsular War, with a small interlude in England when Juanna and Harry went back home. The descriptions of the war can be dreary and you wonder how people went to war bringing their household along. Nonetheless, you can feel Juanna's and Harry's worry and fear as they wonder about the well-being of each other, especially Juanna as she doesn't know if Harry is dead or alive. We should be thankful in this modern age that news does not take so long to travel to us. (

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siok | Mar 12, 2023 |

I'm finally giving up. I just can't get into this one. Ah well... DNF

sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |

Alas, although I generally love Heyer, I couldn't get into this one. I think it's because it was too focused on the historical battle details. Battles -- especially *excruciatingly detailed battles* don't really do it for me. But if you like that sort of thing, you'll be all over this book.

Maybe. After all, I gave up about 30 pages in. (

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elenaj | Jul 31, 2020 |

This is the true life story of Harry Smith, an officer in the Rifles in Wellington's army in the Peninsular war that meets and marries a Spanish lady after the siege of Badajos. Juana Smith (yes, that does sound very odd) then follows Harry through Spain and the defeat of Napoleon. He is then sent to America, while she stays in England and then returns to jion Wellington at Waterloo. The period of Harry's time in America dragged somewhat, as it is when the two principles are together and lighting sparks off each other that the book is at its livliest.
I can't quite tell if my OK response to this book is the book or the current situaiton we find ourselves in,when the wprld seems to have been turned upside down. I suppose I can only think that at least we're not facing Boney and I'm not likely to be shot. (

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Helenliz | Mar 28, 2020 |

This a Georgian era story and not a Regency romance. A lot of Peninsular War history is related and I felt that the main theme of the young bride and her soldier-husband was often swamped by the historical review of many famous battles. Since I don't know this history at all, a few maps and indications of troop movements would have improved my reading. (

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

"My favourite historical novelist." �?? Margaret Drabble

A tale of love at first sight, based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal.

After marrying Harry Smith when she was 14 years old, Juana Smith "followed the drum," marching at the back of the troops along with the other wives and the officers' servants. Juana became a camp favorite, charming all with her youthful enthusiasm. In spite of the danger, Juana thrived on military life and her passionate, if somewhat stormy, relationship with Harry.
Heyer's research encompassed every available diary from that time period, including Harry Smith's, and all of the Duke of Wellington's writings and dispatches. She brings alive military life during the Regency period, how the armies marched and fought, as well as how the nobility provided for its own comfort with servants, horses, dogs and furniture.

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