Ain’t She Sweet?

To Jayne Ann Krentz

A dear friend, a wonderful writer,

and the romance novel’s most eloquent

and insightful advocate

No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree. The pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

JANE AUSTEN, Persuasion

“I am afraid,” confessed Pen, “that I am not very well-behaved. Aunt says that I had a lamentable upbringing.”

GEORGETTE HEYER, The Corinthian