An extensive list of the sources I have found on Internet Archive
Last updated 9/26/25
It would be quite selfish of me to keep these to myself, wouldn't it? This list will be updated frequently, in accordance to what I have found. These were found while doing my own research for various topics, and taken from the bibliographies of many books. Some of these I will have cited in posts of mine, many others will not appear anywhere in my work. Mostly primary sources, but quite a few books make their appearance.
Sorted alphabetically by surname of author
*Some sources, for the sake of readability, have their title somewhat shortened and/or authors removed. In this case, the sourced author will be chosen according to reverse alphabetization, as this is how they are listed on the Archive
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Alden, John Richard. General Gage in America: Being Principally a History of his Role in the American Revolution
Anburey, Thomas. With Burgoyne to Quebec; An Account of the Life at Quebec and of the Famous Battle at Saratoga
Atwood, Rodney. The Hessians: Mercenaries From Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution
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Babits. Lawrence E. A Devil of A Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens
Balderston, Marion and Syrett, David. The Lost War: Letters From British Officers During the American Revolution
Bass, Robert D. The Green Dragoon
Burgoyne, John. A Letter From Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to His Constituents, Upon His Late Resignation
Burgoyne, John. A State of The Expedition from Canada, as Laid Before the House of Commons
Burgoyne, John. A Supplement to The State of The Expedition from Canada
Clinton, Henry. Observations on Some Parts of the Answer of Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative
Clinton, Henry. The American Rebellion; Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative of His Campaigns, 1775-1782
Commanger, Henry Steele. Spirit of '76: The Story of The American Revolution as Told by Participants
Creswell, John. British Admirals of The Eighteenth Century: Tactics in Battle
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Donoughue, Bernard. British Politics and the American Revolution, The Path to War
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Ewald, Johann von. Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal
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George III, King of Great Britain. The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North from 1768 to 1783
Grant, Alfred. Our American Brethren: A History of Letters in the British Press During the American Revolution, 1775-1781
Gruber, Ira D. The Howe Brothers and The American Revolution
Lefkowitz, Arthur S. George Washington's Indispensable Men
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Massey, Gregory D. John Laurens and The American Revolution
McCowen, George Smith. The British Occupation of Charleston
Moultrie, William. Memoirs of
Murdoch, David H. Rebellion in America: A Contemporary British Viewpoint, 1765-1783
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Parton, James. The Life and Times of Aaron Burr
Pearson, Michael. Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution as Seen Through British Eyes
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Ramsay, David. The History of The Revolution of South Carolina
Robson, Eric. Letters From America, 1773 to 1780, Being the Letters of a Scots Officer, Sir James Murray, to his Home During the War of American Independence
Rodger, N. A. M. The Command of The Ocean: A Naval History of Britain
Rodger, N. A. M. The Wooden World: An Anatomy of The Georgian Navy
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Seymour, William. The Price of Folly: British Blunders in the War of American Independence
Spring, Matthew H. With Zeal And With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America
Steiner, Bernard Christian. The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin. The Campaign of Virginia, 1781: An Exact Reprint of Six rare Pamphlets on the Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy
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Tarleton, Banastre. A History of The Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in The Southern Provinces of North America
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Van Doren, Carl. Secret History of the American Revolution: An Account of the Conspiracies of Benedict Arnold and Numerous Others
One of the unexpected joys in my teacher life is using colored paper to make motivational bulletin boards for the beginning of the school year. Here are two of my boards, from 2018 and 2020.
It’s time to begin brainstorming my next board… if you have any ideas for quotes or themes, please send them my way! I would love to hear them and appreciate the help. ;D
Something that we can acknowledge about Bridgerton is that for a show that claims to want diversity they gave more prominence to white characters and their arcs than their poc leads.
Like Kate Sharma having her background story erased compared to Anthony who was given more trauma than in the book plus the Featherington subplot, diminishing the amount of Sophie's inner monologue about her illegitimacy and her desire to not end up like her mother just to have Eloise - who by the way deserved better than being called selfish - being given more time regarding her inner monologue.
I completely disagree. The show has gone out of their way to include POC in a historical setting based off a series of books where they are not represented. The show has completely rewritten history to include POC. In all but one season one of the dual protagonists is a POC. The other main supporting casts with dominate subplots are all POC. The show will even have a LGTB storyline (to add to previous LGTB subplots) just because fans demanded. The one main white couple in this show - Colin and Penelope - had the least amount of screen time. Colin was a supporting character in his own season. Who dominated much of the remaining screen time - all of the subplots, most of which featured a POC (with the exception of the Eloise and Cressida plot line).
In a show called Bridgerton is not a crime to feature scenes with the Bridgerton family.
I expect Bridgerton to handle a gay female couple in the lead as well as they handled racism, colonialism, and Benedict's bisexuality...which is to say: not well. Blink and you'll miss it. Sure we'll have a violin cover of Good Luck Babe to play over and over, but the writers will sweep any real discussion under the rug in favor of surface level glitter. And once again we will let them do this in favor of nice GIFs and shipping wars.
If Julia Quinn wants to write a gay romance novel, then she needs to write a gay romance novel. If she ever does, I'd still read it, but she hasn't yet.
A "gay romance" should not be a box to be checked and shuffled along for the sake of brownie points. A "gay romance" in a historical drama will need to be structurally different from a straight romance. Anyone can tell you that men and women are different, so a romance between a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman will all be different. You cannot simply copy and paste part of one and then switch it to another and expect the story, setting, characters, and romance not to creek under the added weight it was not built to support.
The book When He Was Wicked was built upon the need for a M/F romance. If you can't see this, then you lack the reading comprehension skills or historical knowledge necessary to reading a book set in another time, place, and culture. The show will have to fundamentally alter the story now, which will (and already has) annoyed fans of the book, who are perfectly within their right to want the show to be like the book(s). However, the show cannot be like the book anymore, which will drive away viewers, just when a series like Bridgerton will inevitably suffer from what I like to call the middle season slump. The show runners have decided to "spice" things up by adding some controversy to this next season in order to draw new views, but runs the risk of alienating previous fans. If this next season fails to attract enough viewers, Netflix will point to the gay love story as the reason why, and potentially pull the plug on other big budget LGBT content. Netflix has spent a lot of money on this show...A LOT of money...so this is a move that will make or break the show and determine if we get a sixth or seventh season, let alone a spin off. If anything should go wrong the show runners will not be blamed, the LGBT content will. That is hardly fair to actual LGBT shows that are not created to check off a box, but legitimately thoughtful portrayals of this community.
While Bridgerton is fun fluff that some people watch to wind down after a long day, it is set in a specific time and place. The core fans are not here just for the pretty wigs and the pink color palette - we're here to see these books set in another time and in another world brought to life, not to gaze upon our own reflection and modern world for eight hours.
Give actual LGBT literature a try. There is a growing subgenere of historical romance with queer characters done on a sliding scale of historical accuracy to romantasy. These books give readers a true and complete LGBT story, not the spine of a straight romance with a lavender jacket quickly thrown over it. I think in order to represent the gay community, you must do it properly. Being gay is not an accessory or a window shopping aesthetic, so it should not be treated such when portrayed in fiction and by content creators.
While I have faith in the two lead actresses for next season, I do not have the same faith in the writers and producers.
does anybody else find it weird that people hate michael being changed to michaela in the bridgerton show?
bc honestly michael was a horrible character. he was an asshole to francesca when he first got back and then basically forced himself on her even though she rejected his advances—and then MARRIED HER WITHOUT HER CONSENT and just expected her to love him.
like francesca was a victim in the books… and that’s the guy people want instead?
I for one would love to see a good adaptation of a good romance novel with a gay couple in a historical setting. Not one that is copied and pasted onto something else where the societal norms can't be explored. Bridgerton dropped the ball on race by immediately changing the subject. It also wanted to make Benedict bisexual just for eye candy, the show never really explored it. I don't trust the writers enough to handle a gay couple with the care this topic deserves without turning it into a non problem that can be solved with a lavish ball and a pop song.
A gay couple in a major period drama should not have to take the scraps and trappings of another story to exist. It deserves a full chance to live and stand on its own.
Now, onto the book. I'm not going to pretend that Julia Quinn is a great writer, however, part of what makes When He was Wicked interesting is how it breaks the pattern from her other books. It mentions the outside world, it talks about malaria (part of the money the book initially made went to research about malaria and a foundation to help stop its spread - a very noble cause), the hero initially has a job (until he has to fulfill the obligatory "job" of being a duke - why are all these guys dukes?), etc. While Bridgerton the show is escapist fantasy with some darkness, the books are very light by comparison with some darker elements - this book is one of the darker ones. I trust the show will do a good job with the emotional core of the story: loving someone, losing them, and then finding love again - the last half of season 4 knocked it out of the park.
However, a good portion of the book stems from the societal expectation that Francesca will marry again and that she must marry someone she can have children with to further the family line. The show will need to come up with a way around this - maybe society can pressure Francesca but she is not ready. Or as soon as Michael died the show could give Michaela a storyline about what it would look like to be the next in line and presumably the last in line. Maybe SHE can be the one pressured into marrying. However, all of this means that the coming romance's initial jumping off point (let's get married so we can have a kid) is now moot. It is a BIG deal in the book, so to suddenly have to cut that storyline out leaves a big lingering hole in its place. How will the show address this?
I actually liked the book overall. While Quinn's plots do have a tendency to be very thin and cliched, I think there's just enough character development and emotional texture to the book to make it worth reading. I'm interested to see how the writers adapt this, especially since S4 was so good, all of the different plot lines wove together so well in the last three episodes - but I don't know if this one storyline is strong enough to carry an entire season. The book felt 100 pages too long to me, so why not add Eloise's book in there too? That one also felt like it too long for its own good. Maybe if you put both storylines together to complement and contrast with each other the season will have more a plot than the two books by themselves. I think it's just a personal preference, but I usually end up getting rather bored 2/3rds of the way through most modern romance novels, especially if the couple marries 2/3rds of the way into it (I'm looking at you Romancing Mr. Bridgerton). Having these two stories about a second chance at love after losing a spouse play together as a cohesive whole instead of just back to back would rid the story of the excess filler and instead get to the root of both books.
Also, and I'm going to be totally honest here, I thought that since the show has made a big deal about adding non-white actors to play white character that instead of having Michael be a white guy who has served in India as part of the army...they'd actually get an Indian guy to play him. I was all excited to see an Asian actor play the leading man for a change!
And, again, to be honest...I'd rather see a gender bent version of Eloise's book. Eloise doesn't have to be just straight/bi/gay in the show - she's an interesting character no matter who she's with, but I was just about to jump on that train and now it looks like the train may be stopping.
Anyways, I'm disappointed the show will not be like the books, especially since I felt an emotional attachment to book 6 that I didn't have for the other books (save book 3), but I'm still interested in seeing how they change things.
But I do think a big gay romance deserves to be a big gray romance by itself, not just take the spine of a straight romance novel and then toss a lavender jacket over it.
I do trust the two lead actresses to be convincing, no matter what. The actress who plays Francesca really nailed it this season! I've never seen the actress who plays Michaela before in anything, but she seems cute.
To sum it up, I expect the cast will be good, as usual, but...I'm hesitant about the writers. I think in order to successfully have a gay couple in a period pieces like this, even if it is rather modern leaning, needs to be able to stand on its own two feet and not just be a studio or producer's way of saying, hey we have an ____ couple, let's check that off the list of things we need to do without really addressing it or putting effort into it. This show didn't tackle racism well, so I don't expect the writers to have the guts to really address homosexuality appropriately either. Even pretty violin cover of Good Luck Babe won't change the fact that this is set in a specific time and place where the society was all about the male and continuing the male line.
Also, it's not a crime to want a TV series based on a series of books to...be like the series of books. The books have their faults, but enough people love them that they deserve to be adapted for those fans. Why push the fans that already exist away?
There are gay historical romance novels out there. Let's bring attention to them rather than accept a half-hazard copy and paste of a straight story instead. You may have to search a little harder to find them at your local bookstore or book supplier depending on where you live, but they ARE out there! Accept them in all their technicolor glory!
Hardly, the character is male and white in the book. If the show can cast non-white actors in the roles and we can enjoy it, then we can enjoy it when someone makes their own fan-cast of a different race or gender.
Save your ire for when things are dire. We can all enjoy Bridgerton in our own way - the books and the show.
The changes they made with Fran and Michaela has cheapened their relationship already. John is still living and breathing?!?!? And they clearly implied that Fran had immediate feelings for her?!?!?
The WHOLE POINT of her book and why it is called "When he was wicked" and the feeling of "wickedness" was a main theme in the book was because she felt that she was betraying and it was a forbidden attraction.
I agree that this was a very good way to modernize the "forbidden" aspect of it, but the fact that they have her literally say that something is missing in her relationship with John is already ruining it and making other implications.
Her and John's relationship has to be ROCK SOLID and she has to grapple with her grief of a deep and loving relationship and her catching feelings and feeling like she is betraying her late husband in doing so, NOT that she is already catching feelings for someone else WHILE her husband is still alive!?!?!?
John Millais. The Martyr of the Solway. 1871. │ Gabriel von Max. Young woman with flowers in her hair. │ Sophie Gengembre Anderson. Portrait of a Young Girl. │ James Carroll Beckwith. The Embroiderer. │ Arthur Hughes. Juliet and her Nurse. 1867–1872. │ Thomas Benjamin Kennington. Contemplation. │ Alexandre Cabanel. Fallen Angel. 1847. │ Frederick Sandys. Helen of Troy. 1867. │ Ruth Sanderson. Arthur and Guinevere. │ Paul Delaroche. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. 1833. │ Johannes Vermeer. Girl with a Pearl Earring. 1665. │ Stephen Phillips. Nancy Price as Calypso in Ulysses. 1902. │ P. J. Lynch. Eithlinn, Daughter of Balor. 2000. │ Charles Allen Winter. Portrait of a Woman. 1919. │ William Oxer. Amor Aeternus. 2022. │ George Romney. Emma Hart as Miranda. 1786. │ Bertalan Székely. Red Haired Girl. 1875. │ John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. Thoughts of the Past. 1859. │ Jean-Jacques Henner. Head Of A Young Girl In A Blue Dress. │ John William Waterhouse. Ophelia. 1910. │ Rudolf Kosow, Geheimnisvoll. │
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