The Bridgertons is the name of a saga of successful historical romance novels written by Julia quinn. It opens on the day of Christmas, undoubtedly the right date for a genre with a large number of fans who join those of the vintage series, also so fashionable. We take a look to what promises to be another new hit.
Julia quinn
Actually, it is the pseudonym most used by the American writer Julie Cutler, graduated in History of art by Harvard University, and that started with Medicine at Yale's. But it no longer ended for him unexpected and huge success of her romantic novels of a historical nature and feminist touch for the time. It has been considered a kind of Contemporary Jane Austen.
Already translated to more than 25 languages, it is common for being on the lists of best selling books. He has also received many awards, including several RITA awards, the reference of the romantic genre.
The Bridgertons - The books
Family saga to use, Lyou Bridgerton is set in the luxurious and competitive world of london high society at the time of the Regency. We stroll through the gleaming halls of Mayfair or the aristocratic palaces of Park Lane, and the series shows us that seductive environment complex rules and dramatic power struggles, where the appearance and hypocrisythey are everything.
The protagonists are the powerful bridgerton family, which make up eight brothers, each one more different but very united, that they will have to band by those halls and palatial dances in search of romance, adventure and love.
The books tell us those love stories of the eight brothers, with names that follow alphabetical order: Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory and Hyacinth. They can be read so independent, but it is always recommendable start with principle to catch up, especially with those characters. These are the titles:
- The duke and me
- The viscount who loved me
- I give you my heart
- Seducing Mr. Bridgerton
- To Sir Philip, with love
- The heart of a Bridgerton
- For a kiss
- Looking for wife
The Bridgertons - The Serie
Produces it Netflix, which also has to its credit the most famous series of recent years and the most reference of the genre: Downtown Abbey, although this is set in the early twentieth century. He premieres it just on Christmas day and behind it is the hand of Shonda Rhimes and his production company Shondaland, responsible for such colossal and enduring successes on television as Grey's Anatomy and its derivative Walk In, The Scandal.
The Bridgertons they are endorsed as a fiction halfway between Gossip Girl and those Jane Austen novels in which impossible loves, intrigues, family dramas are not lacking.
The cast, which is choral, is led by not well-known actors such as Phoebe dynevor y Rege-Jean Page, who accompany Golda rosheuvel, Jonathan Bailey, Luke newton, Luke thompson, Claudia jessie, Nicola coughlan, Ruby barker, Sabrina bartlett, Ruth Gemmell, Adjoa Andoh, Polly walker, Bessie carter y Harriet Cains. And in the original version is Julie Andrews, that puts the voice of Lady Whistledown.
The Bridgertons start with Daphne bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor), the eldest daughter of the family, in her debut in high society. You want to follow in your parents' footsteps and find true love, and at first their prospects seem hopeful. But everything starts to fall apart when a diary full of scandals about many members of that elitist society. It is written by the mysterious Lady whistledown and there are also slanders about Daphne.
But then the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), famous for rebelbut also the most wanted bachelor and priced. Daphne and he decide ally in a growing battle of ingenuity and dialectics to try to evade those expectations about his future.
I got to know the work thanks to the series on Netflix, it is good to know that there is also a book. If the series follows the tune of the book then the literary work must be magnificent.
-Gustavo Woltmann.