when I say I want sapphic bodice rippers, I don’t just mean queer lady romance novels in general
no I want a total Regency trash fire with literal bodices being literally ripped
it’s 1810 and gay marriage is legal but that’s never explained, and a spirited young lass who only wants to be an artist despite her social cimbing family has massive sexual tension with the cold and closed-off Lady Fancypants until they wind up doing it in the hayloft
the title is To Wed A Wild Duchess and at least one character involved is Scottish
Gay marriage isn’t legal in England but it is in some obscure Highlands clan. Artist and Lady Fancypants run off to start a sheep farm and whisky distillery.