Oi, now I feel like an idiot.

[kaigou]

I just read a romance review (mostly b/c I was already on the site for an SFF book review and started clicking random links), and spent a good ten minutes after the review thinking I had to be missing something. A puritan, and the Witchfinders, and the book's set during the Civil War. Oh, yeah, SURE the author did his/her homework, puritans weren't anywhere around by the Civil War! Obviously someone's been sniffing the historical glue. *nods firmly*

And then I realized: the setting is the English Civil War.

Oh. Right. In which case, puritans? Yeah. There would be puritans.

*heddesk*

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[sharibet.livejournal.com]

I had a book reviewer take me to task on my first novel (which was set in 1919 and has a hero who is a WWI veteran) because I apparently neglected to mention Nazis. For the First World War.

(Of course, this reviewer also had no clue who or what the Kaiser was...sigh).

[autopope]

Not the "English Civil War".

The British Civil Wars (plural) -- there were about four of them, interspersed by the odd couple of months of not making stabby on each other, over a period of a decade, and the death toll was probably on the order of 10% of the population, and Scotland was in on the act both separately and jointly (on account of Charles 1 being King of Scotland as well as King of England and Wales, which were not -- at that time -- a United Kingdom).