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Quirky gpsy heroins romane1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Amidst a series of suspicious misfortunes, Lucan endeavors to win Alexa’s love and expose the conspirators but only succeeds in reaffirming Alexa’s belief that she is inadequate to become his duchess. The adversary responsible for Alexa’s disappearance as a toddler still covets her fortune and joins forces with Harcourt’s arch nemesis. Spying Alexa at a London ball, he impulsively decides to make the knife-wielding gypsy his bride despite her aversion to him and her determination to return to the Highlands. Lucan, the Duke of Harcourt, promised his gravely ill mother he’d procure a wife by Christmastide, but intrigued by the feisty lass he saved in Scotland, he finds the haut ton ladies lacking. Afterward, she learns she’s the long-lost heiress Alexandra Atterberry and is expected to take her place among the elite society she’s always disdained. Highland Heather Romancing a Scot Series, Book 3Ībducted by a band of renegade Scots, Highland gypsy Tasara Faas doesn’t hesitate to blacken her rescuer’s eye when the charming duke attempts to steal a kiss. What unusual elements do you enjoy reading about in a historical romance? Though a Scottish Regency Romance, Heartbreak and Honor uses the abduction and persecution elements of the Scottish gypsies to help spread their unique, and often unfortunate, tale. Today, usage of the terms gypsy or even tinker is considered derogatory. ![]() Some sources also claim the Highland Scottish Travelers used caravans as well. Scottish Travelers toted their goods in carts and pitched bowed tents while the Roma typically lived in vardos, a type of caravan wagon. Highland Travelers were so despised, that during the 17 th century, Scottish law ordered them to “quit the realm” or hang. Rumors abounded of illegitimate children of the gentry or haute ton, being sold or given to the gypsies as well. Many disappeared and were thought victims used in medical schools for dissection. In an odd twist, gypsies’ feared abduction themselves. Stereotyped as thieves, con men, and fortune tellers, stories were broadly circulated that gypsies would kidnap children. They possess a strong belief in the importance of family and purity taboos, much like the Roma travellers.Īnd much like the European Roma, the Highland Travelers were (are) a maligned segment of population. Many hold typical Scottish surnames such as Stewart, Macmillan, MacDonald, and Cameron. The Black Tinkers language is secret and has never been recorded in writing, according to one source. However, the prevalence of the Roma influence is seen more in the Lowland travellers rather than the Highlands. No surprise there since the various tribes date back at least five hundred years in Scotland. In fact, some groups call themselves Nackin which is thought to be of Hindi origin. ![]() Some Scottish Highland Traveler families do claim Roma heritage, and their Scottish–Gaelic cant contains Romany or Anglo-Romany words. Everything from her dress, customs, and speech had to be researched because she’s far more like a Scotswoman than a Romany. I’d written a story with a part Roma heroine before, The Viscount’s Vow, but the Highland gypsies were vastly different. That meant I had to rethink Tasara Faas, my heroine in Heartbreak and Honor. Though both groups, as well as at least a half a dozen other nomadic tribes, traveled throughout Scotland, the Roma’s origins trace back to India, whereas the Black Tinkers (in Gaelic-The Ceárdannan or the craftsmen) are mostly a genetic indigenous Scots. The term gypsy is a misnomer derived from Egyptian, much like the label Indian for Native Americans, and Romany Gypsies are quite different than the Highland Scottish Travellers or Black tinkers as they were known. Scottish Gypsies Highland Travelers or Black Tinkers ![]()
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