{"id":7052,"date":"2025-02-04T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:24:40","slug":"book-the-female-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-the-female-correspondent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Female Correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"book-1008\" class=\"bdb-book-info\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/book_thefemalecorrespondent.png?fit=250%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Female Correspondent\" class=\"alignright\"\/><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Female Correspondent<br \/><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/author\/e-a-deverell\/\">E.A. Deverell<\/a><br \/><strong>First Published:<\/strong> <span content=\"2015-04-30\">April 30, 2015<\/span><br \/><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 55<br \/><strong>Genre:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/genre\/historical-romance\/\">Historical Romance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/genre\/regency\/\">Regency<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/genre\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/genre\/short-stories\/\">Short Stories<\/a><br \/><strong>Format:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/format\/ebook\/\">Ebook<\/a><br \/><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/source\/free\/\">Free<\/a><br \/><strong>Rating:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-database\/rating\/4\/\"><span class=\"bdb-font-awesome-star-wrap\"><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><i class=\"far fa-star\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25461928-the-female-correspondent\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/addtogoodreads.png?ssl=1\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/><br \/><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> <p>Beatrice Debord has assumed a male pseudonym in her correspondence with famous botanist, Henry Burbank. When, impressed and intrigued by her knowledge and reticence, he seeks out his correspondent, Beatrice is forced to invent a series of lies for the fictional Mr. Allenham\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<strong>Get the Book:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadeverell.com\/join\/\" target=\"_blank\">Author<\/a>\r\n<hr \/><\/div>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\",\n\t\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Review\",\n\t\t\t\t\"datePublished\": \"2025-02-04T05:00:25+00:00\",\n\t\t\t\t\"description\": \"The Female Correspondent\",\n\t\t\t\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\": \"Radical Dreamer\"\t\t\t\t},\n\t\t\t\t\"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/pastelgoth.net\\\/blog\\\/book-the-female-correspondent\\\/\",\n\t\t\t\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\": \"The Female Correspondent\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\"author\": [\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"name\": \"E.A. 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I\u2019ve been wary of the regency and historical romance genres as of late due to many of the stories just feeling so out of place for their respective time periods. I had no such issues with this book and it was actually pretty refreshing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Female Correspondent<\/strong> is a squeaky-clean romance short story about a young woman, Beatrice Debord, who is more interested in botany than she is in marriage. Nobody takes her work seriously due to her gender, which leads her to pose as a man in her exchanges with Henry Burbank. Eager for intelligent conversation, Henry seeks out his correspondent and Beatrice finds herself caught in a lie. While the book doesn\u2019t specifically name a historical figure as inspiration, this story brings to mind Jeanne Baret, a female botanist that disguised herself as a man so that she could sail to South America and conduct research with her employer and rumored lover, Philibert Commerson.<\/p>\n<p>The story flows nicely, has an interesting cast of characters, and the love story I found believable. It&#8217;s short and sweet and it was a nice change of pace for the genre.<\/p>\n<h2>Quote<\/h2>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The words seemed to rearrange themselves on the paper, until the familiar hand became the strong, sweet <strong>voice<\/strong> of Miss Debord, chronicling, not the leisurely life of a <em>gentleman<\/em> of means, as he had supposed, but the <strong>lonely<\/strong> and isolated life of a <em>woman<\/em> who had striven to enrich her own life and that of others by her tireless work, without thought of <em>reward<\/em> or <strong>renown<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>About the Author<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\">\n<h3>About E.A. Deverell<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/author_eadeverell.png?fit=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/author_eadeverell.png?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/author_eadeverell.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eva Deverell, also known as Lady Writer, is the creator of the One Page Novel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadeverell.com\/introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/13688777.E_A_Deverell\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4eppEYf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/evadeverell\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Pinterest<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/evadeverell\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review It&#8217;s easy to forget how the regency romance label has evolved over the years to dime a dozen erotic romance novels. 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