Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Colonel’s Spinster | 2020 | Audrey Harrison | Buy |
Tragic Characters in Classic Literature is Audrey Harrison’s series that takes inspiration from classic literary figures. The Colonel’s Spinster (2020) gives a fresh, romantic treatment to a character type familiar from earlier fiction, placing her in Harrison’s signature Regency setting.
Harrison has written dozens of Regency romances, and this series stands out for its literary angle. Rather than inventing characters from scratch, she takes figures associated with tragedy in classic novels and reimagines their stories with happier outcomes. The Colonel’s Spinster applies this approach to a woman who, in the original literary tradition, would have been left without a match.
The series currently has one book, so readers can start and finish it quickly. Harrison’s other Regency series, including the Returned Lords of Grosvenor Square and the Foundlings, follow a similar format of interconnected romances set in the same period.