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Creator/{{Netflix}} ordered a series adaptation in 2018. ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'' was released on December 25, 2020. The second series, adapting 'The Viscount Who Loved Me' was released on March 25, 2022. A miniseries serving as a prequel for Queen Charlotte, ''Series/QueenCharlotteABridgertonStory'', was also released on May 4, 2023, and was used as the inspiration for a tie-in novel, ''Queen Charlotte'', which was co-written by Quinn and Creator/ShondaRimes, who produced the series adaptation.

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Creator/{{Netflix}} ordered a series adaptation in 2018. ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'' was released on December 25, 2020. The second series, adapting 'The Viscount Who Loved Me' was released on March 25, 2022. A miniseries serving as a prequel for Queen Charlotte, ''Series/QueenCharlotteABridgertonStory'', was also released on May 4, 2023, and was used as the inspiration for a tie-in novel, ''Queen Charlotte'', which was co-written by Quinn and Creator/ShondaRimes, Creator/ShondaRhimes, who produced the series adaptation.
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Creator/{{Netflix}} ordered a series adaptation in 2018. ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'' was released on December 25, 2020. The second series, adapting 'The Viscount Who Loved Me' was released on March 25, 2022.

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Creator/{{Netflix}} ordered a series adaptation in 2018. ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'' was released on December 25, 2020. The second series, adapting 'The Viscount Who Loved Me' was released on March 25, 2022. A miniseries serving as a prequel for Queen Charlotte, ''Series/QueenCharlotteABridgertonStory'', was also released on May 4, 2023, and was used as the inspiration for a tie-in novel, ''Queen Charlotte'', which was co-written by Quinn and Creator/ShondaRimes, who produced the series adaptation.
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* SpiritedYoungLady: The grown-up Hyacinth Bridgerton is intelligent, headstrong and sharply witty.
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* SecondLove: Francesca was in a mutually loving marriage with John until his death and her later love with Michael in no way diminishes this. Nor does the fact that Michael was her second love depreciate her love for him.

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* SecondLove: Plays a big part in ''When He Was Wicked.'' Francesca was in a mutually loving marriage with John until his death and her later falling in love with Michael in no way diminishes this. Nor does the fact that Michael was her second love depreciate her love for him.
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* SecondLove: Francesca was in a mutually loving marriage with John until his death and her later love with Michael in no way diminishes this. Nor does the fact that Michael was her second love depreciate her love for him.
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* SimultaneousArcs: The plots of "To Sir Phillip, With Love" and "Romancing Mr Bridgerton" take place during the same time as "When He Was Wicked," each concentrating on a different Bridgerton siblings' arc.

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* SimultaneousArcs: The plots of "To Sir Phillip, With Love" and "Romancing Mr Bridgerton" take place during the same time as "When He Was Wicked," with each concentrating arc focusing on a different Bridgerton siblings' arc.Eloise, Colin and Francesca respectively.
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* SimultaneousArcs: The plots of "To Sir Phillip, With Love" and "Romancing Mr Bridgerton" take place during the same time as "When He Was Wicked," each concentrating on a different Bridgerton siblings' arc.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The Bridgerton siblings number eight. Gregory and his wife later manage nine children.
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* DownerBeginning: "When He Was Wicked" begins with the death of Francesca's loving husband followed by her miscarrying his child.


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* LadykillerInLove: Michael Stirling is a notorious rake and has been hopelessly in love with Francesca Bridgerton ever since he saw her. Since she was marrying his cousin, who Michael was extremely close with, he does not make a single move towards her but directs his energies to various other women.

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* GoodStepmother: Mary loves Kate like a second daughter and is determined to see her happy and settled just as much as Edwina. On Kate's end she is just as fond of Mary and considers her the only maternal figure she can remember having.

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Mary loves Kate like a second daughter and is determined to see her happy and settled just as much as Edwina. On Kate's end she is just as fond of Mary and considers her the only maternal figure she can remember having.



* HeroicBastard: Sophie, the heroine of the third book, is an earl's illegitimate daughter.

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Sophie, the heroine of the third book, is an earl's illegitimate daughter.



* SecretDiary: Colin has one, which Penelope finds.

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Colin has one, which Penelope finds.



* WhiteSheep: It's a RunningGag that Penelope is the only Featherington that the Bridgertons tolerate, and the boys usually stick up for her in society. [[spoiler: And she eventually ends up a Bridgerton as Colin's wife.]]

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It's a RunningGag that Penelope is the only Featherington that the Bridgertons tolerate, and the boys usually stick up for her in society. [[spoiler: And she eventually ends up a Bridgerton as Colin's wife.]]

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* AltarTheSpeed: Simon and Daphne, Anthony and Kate, and Philip and Eloise all end up having to get married swiftly due to being discovered in compromising situations.

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Simon and Daphne, Anthony and Kate, and Philip and Eloise all end up having to get married swiftly due to being discovered in compromising situations.



* SoBad,It'sGood: in universe exmpale is miss Butterworth and and the mad baraon the book is hammy but everyone that reads it seems to enjoy it.

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* SoBad,It'sGood: in universe exmpale SoBadItsGood: An in-universe example is miss Miss Butterworth and and the mad baraon Mad Baron; the book is hammy but everyone that reads it seems to enjoy it.


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* StrictlyFormula: As analysed [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nA4SSgBSAHA here starting at 7:23]] by WebVideo/JuliaCudney, it is not an exaggeration to say the books follow a certain formula, with similar beats occurring at the same points and many of the characters falling into similar archetypes (most of the men are handsome rakes, most of the women are inexperienced and "unconventionally attractive", half the characters have daddy (or mommy) issues, there are questionable sexual dynamics, etc).
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* SoBad,It'sGood: in universe exmpale is miss Butterworth and and the mad baraon the book is hammy but everyone that reads it seems to enjoy it.

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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Gareth's father turns out to be his uncle while his uncle turns out to be his father. When discussing it with Hyacinth, Gareth has to specify which one he actually means.]]



* SoBadItsGood: The young adult Hyacinth comes over to read romance novels to Lady Danbury every week. They both agree that the writing, plot and characters are ridiculous but can't keep from wanting to see how they end.
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* SoBadItsGood: The young adult Hyacinth comes over to read romance novels to Lady Danbury every week. They both agree that the writing, plot and characters are ridiculous but can't keep from wanting to see how they end.
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* ParentalNeglect: Amanda and Oliver Crane's parents are emotionally distant for most of their childhood, their mother Marina due to clinical depression and their father Phillip due to the stress of trying to care for his wife, deal with her death and his own hang-ups about repeating his father's abuse with his own children. Though Phillip Crane does love his children and under Eloise's guidance grows closer to them.
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** Posy becomes this to Sophie as opposed to her mother and sister.

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** Posy becomes this to Sophie as opposed to her [[WickedStepmother mother Araminta]] and sister.[[BigSisterBully sister Rosamond.]]
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** Eloise ends up becoming this to Philip Crane's two children, Oliver and Amanda. The epilogue from Amanda's point of view ten years later has her explicitly consider Eloise her mother.


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** Posy becomes this to Sophie as opposed to her mother and sister.

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