Recs if you like The Grand Sophy...

Love through the ages, blooming slowly through the pages for you. Enjoy how these couples grow to love each other through their hardships and how their relationship builds up.

Historical romance books where she is NOT a sweet, forgiving angel. Only badass women with a backbone, who are at times cold, vindictive, selfish, scheming, etc.

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”