Bridgerton Novels Race

Based on julia quinn s bestselling bridgerton novels chronicling the eight bridgerton siblings as they find true love in british high society in the 1810s season 1 of rhimes and dusen s series.

Bridgerton novels race. Plus most 19th century period dramas are overwhelmingly white. Based on julia quinn s bestselling bridgerton novels chronicling the eight bridgerton siblings as they find true love in british high society in the 1810s season 1 of rhimes and dusen s series centers on the eldest daughter daphne phoebe dynover who is thrust onto the marriage market in the summer of 1813. The bridgerton books by quinn who has a sketchy track record when it comes to commenting on diversity don t tackle race at all.

A duke footman lady s maid or even a respected boxer. Applying that same approach to his adaptations of julia quinn s bridgerton novels van dusen places us in an early 19th century britain ruled by a black woman queen charlotte golda rosheuvel. In the show she is a black woman who ascended the throne resulting in a more accepting world filled with equal opportunity where it wasn t radical to see black elite and middle class people.