Bodice-rippers, Begone!

As Fiorella has told you, she has recently discovered several chapters of several unfinished historical romances that she wrote several years ago. What she hasn't told you is that she is aghast at the plots, which were typical of the day--handsome, lusty heroes forcing themselves on virginal young women, and, after a book-long of adventures and back-and-forth, the couple finally deciding they love each other and settling down to live happily ever after.

The underlying premise was that any "good girl" would never have sex willingly--at least, not initially. Then, partially because of birth control options, partially because women were flooding the workplace, everything changed, and relationships and sex scenes in romances became more realistic, A working woman herself,  Fiorella packed away the past and converted to the new school, and now it's time for her to burn her old-school stories, which is why she wrote this obituary. RIP