The romance genre often seems somewhat looked down on in literature – which Bridgerton author Julia Quinn partly credits to the fact it’s dominated by women.
“It’s very female – and women too, we tend to devalue the female,” says Quinn, who specialises in historical fiction and wrote the novels the popular Bridgerton Netflix series is based on. “We might like it, but for some reason we don’t hold it up on a pedestal as much.”
