Hathaways (novel series)
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==Background== |
==Background== |
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Set in [[Victorian England]],{{Cite web |title=Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312949808 |access-date=2026-04-08|website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}} each novel in the series highlights one of the five orphaned Hathaway siblings – Leo, Amelia, Winnifred "Win", Poppy , and Beatrix – who suddenly rise to the ranks of nobility and inherit a Hampshire estate. |
Set in [[Victorian England]],{{Cite web |title=Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312949808 |access-date=2026-04-08|website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}} each novel in the series highlights one of the five orphaned Hathaway siblings – Leo, Amelia, Winnifred "Win", Poppy , and Beatrix – who suddenly rise to the ranks of nobility and inherit a Hampshire estate. The family is considered socially unconventional due to the lack of adherence to the laws of [[etiquette]].{{Sfn|Pérez-Casal|2020|p=150}} |
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Amelia is the eldest of the Hathaways and devotes herself to her siblings after a failed engagement. In ''Mine Till Midnight'' she meets Cam Rohan, |
Amelia is the eldest of the Hathaways and devotes herself to her siblings after a failed engagement. In ''Mine Till Midnight'' she meets Cam Rohan, a character that had already appeared in Kleypas's 2006 novel ''Devil in Winter'' from the Wallflowers series.{{Sfn|Pérez-Casal|2020|p=148}} Cam is the ''factotum'' of Jenner's, a gentlemen's gambling club, and was born from a [[Romani people|Roma]] mother and [[Irish people|Irish]] father, hence he is isolated by both communities because of his mixed background.{{Sfn|Pérez-Casal|2020|p=149}} Afraid of losing contacts with his etnic and cultural roots, he plans to abandon his considerable wealth and London lifestyle to join a group of traveling Romanies.{{Sfn|Pérez-Casal|2020|p=149}} |
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Win is a fragile invalid{{Cite web |date=2008-09-26 |title=Lisa Kleypas Week - Interview and Giveaway |url=https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2008/09/lisa-kleypas-week-interview-and.html |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=The Book Smugglers}} and has been in love for years with Kev Merripen, whom her parents saved and welcomed into their family when he was a boy; her feelings are reciprocated, but Kev thinks he is unworthy of her because of his mysterious past and Romani origin. |
Win is a fragile invalid{{Cite web |date=2008-09-26 |title=Lisa Kleypas Week - Interview and Giveaway |url=https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2008/09/lisa-kleypas-week-interview-and.html |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=The Book Smugglers}} and has been in love for years with Kev Merripen, whom her parents saved and welcomed into their family when he was a boy; her feelings are reciprocated, but Kev thinks he is unworthy of her because of his mysterious past and Romani origin. |
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Poppy is a young woman of beauty and wit, warm, talkative, and with a [[nerd]] side.{{Cite web |date=2009-09-28 |title=Time for Temptation: Q&A with Lisa Kleypas |url=http://goodbadandunread.com/2009/09/28/time-for-temptation-qa-with-lisa-kleypas/ |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=The Good, The Bad and The Unread}} In ''Tempt Me at Twilight'' she attracts the attention of Harry Rutledge, an isolated [[Mechanical engineering|mechanical engineer]] from America who secretly prevents her engagement and manages to win her over. Harry is also the owner of the luxurious Rutledge Hotel, which Kleypas created by combining historical London hotels such as [[Brown's Hotel|Brown's]] and [[Mivart's Hotel|Mivart's]], and where many characters from her previous book have stayed. Physically, Harry is inspired by actor [[Richard Armitage]].{{Cite web |date=2015-10-19 |title=Interview with Lisa Kleypas |url=https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1072.Lisa_Kleypas |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=[[Goodreads]]}} |
Poppy is a young woman of beauty and wit, warm, talkative, and with a [[nerd]] side.{{Cite web |date=2009-09-28 |title=Time for Temptation: Q&A with Lisa Kleypas |url=http://goodbadandunread.com/2009/09/28/time-for-temptation-qa-with-lisa-kleypas/ |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=The Good, The Bad and The Unread}} In ''Tempt Me at Twilight'' she attracts the attention of Harry Rutledge, an isolated [[Mechanical engineering|mechanical engineer]] from America who secretly prevents her engagement and manages to win her over. Harry is also the owner of the luxurious Rutledge Hotel, which Kleypas created by combining historical London hotels such as [[Brown's Hotel|Brown's]] and [[Mivart's Hotel|Mivart's]], and where many characters from her previous book have stayed. Physically, Harry is inspired by actor [[Richard Armitage]].{{Cite web |date=2015-10-19 |title=Interview with Lisa Kleypas |url=https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/1072.Lisa_Kleypas |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=[[Goodreads]]}} |
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==References== |
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* {{Cite book |last=Pérez-Casal |first=Immaculada |title=Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other |date=31 January 2020 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=9781978758766 |editor-last=Ramos-García |editor-first=María T. |pages=145–156 |chapter="There's Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn't There?": The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas |editor-last2=Vivanco |editor-first2=Laura}} |
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==External links== |
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