Mary Hart
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Elizabeth Hoyt:
I enjoyed Phoebe's Epilogue. One of the things that I always wondered about was whether she'd have been rejected by the society, even though she was a Duke's daughter, because would be spouses would have assumed her blindness was a genetic defect?
Elizabeth Hoyt
What a good question, Mary! As you're aware, many people were worried about things they considered "taints" of the bloodline--medical conditions that were poorly understood, like many forms of mental illness. I think blindness, sadly, would have been less likely to have fallen into this category, however, just because it would have been so much more common two hundred years ago. Londoners would be used to seeing blind beggars and probably knew people who had gone blind due to many ailments that are curable today. We have a lot to be thankful for in modern medicine.
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Elizabeth Hoyt:
Hello Ms. Hoyt. So, this may seem like an odd question. I love your books so much, but one of the things I look forward to with your books is the fairy tales that get told throughout the stories. My question is have you ever thought of putting those together in one book?
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