I'm so sorry, Devoney Looser. You are right: the Porter sisters deserve their story to be told. They deserve to reclaim the fame they lost. Bigger than Austen in their day? Astounding. But I simply cannot garner the enthusiasm to make any headway in this girthy tome. And every other sentence doesn't have to re-remind me that women in Regency times had very limited means and opportunity. I understand you have to set it up, but you have to trust me to remember that you said it already. So, by page 23, it was just too tedious for me to want to keep going. 😩