"NOT YOUR REGULAR VICTORIAN ROMANCE""They should invent another word for it. No, actually, you know what? They shouldn't invent anything at all. 'Person' works perfectly well — it covers everyone and every possibility."It is 1894. Dharya Kayal — forty-four years old, former cavalry soldier in Her Majesty's Army, naturalised British subject, homosexual back when the commonly accepted term was still "invert," best friend of Lord Northdall, a man of c...

"NOT YOUR REGULAR VICTORIAN ROMANCE""I don't think this is a particularly good idea," Haddock observed."I'm a Vassemer. We don't have good ideas."The Season of 1889 is drawing to a close, and two of the three Vassemer sisters have settled themselves — and, as every gossip in the capital has gleefully noted, settled themselves remarkably well, marrying considerably above their station.Which leaves only Vera.Vera, who ke...