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# GFY Giveaway: Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/gfy-giveaway-mad-bad-real-heroines-of-the-regency-by-bea-koch-09-2020/
- Published: 2020-09-09T18:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-08T23:28:11.000Z
- Description: You're gonna LOVE this!
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: GFY Giveaway, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09

So excited to be sharing the first book from Bea Koch, whom you may know as one of the owners of [The Ripped Bodice, one of the best bookstores ever.](https://www.therippedbodicela.com/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

> Bea discusses women like Mary Seacole – a Jamaican Scottish woman who helped nurse the injured during the Crimean War in the 19th century; Dido Elizabeth Belle – whose mother was enslaved but she was raised by her white father's family in England; Caroline Herschel – who acted as her brother's assistant as he hunted the heavens for comets, and ended up discovering eight on her own; Anne Lister, who lived on her own terms with her common-law wife at Shibden Hall, and Judith Montefiore, a Jewish woman who wrote the first English language Kosher cookbook.  
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> As one of the owners of the successful romance-only bookstore The Ripped Bodice, **Bea Koch** has had a front row seat to controversies surrounding what is accepted as "historically accurate" for the wildly popular Regency period. Following in the popular footsteps of books like Ann Shen's *Bad Girls Throughout History,* Koch takes the Regency, one of the most loved and idealized historical time periods and a huge inspiration for American pop culture, and reveals the independent-minded, standard-breaking real historical women who lived life at their own pace. In ***Mad & Bad***, we look beyond popular perception of the Regency into the even more vibrant, diverse, and fascinating historical truth.

**THE TASK:** We have three copies to give away, and as usual, I’ll be picking the winner at random. To enter, please comment and share your favorite Historical Woman. (Of any time period!)

**THE RULES:** All entries must be posted in the comments of this post by 9 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday. FYI, if this is the first time you’ve commented here, the system will automatically kick you into comment moderation, but don’t worry, I will rescue you.   *(Open to US readers only; all prizing courtesy of the publisher.)*