Netflix’s Bridgerton series got you craving romance with diversity? Here’s a list of historical romance novels

Love is a political act. Likewise, whose stories of love we tell are political. At different points of time, certain types of love (interracial and/or same-sex relationships for instance) have been viewed as lesser, treated as illegitimate or been outright illegal.

It’s one of the reasons Shonda Rhimes’s series Bridgerton is so interesting; the show imagines an alternate version of Regency-era London, one that includes Black and Brown people in the aristocracy.

And with 82 million households tuning in, it has become Netflix’s biggest ever series.

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But for fans of the show who have picked up the show’s source text, Julia Quinn’s novel The Duke and I, for the first time, it’s been a shock to discover that not only is the Duke of…