The Partridge: The First Day

A harmless little story for Christmas :-)
Easy, quick read, looking forward to the rest of the series :-)

I like the concept of 12 brides of Christmas, and post-order brides, but
- this is too modern in mindset. She should have tried to write like Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder. As she chose not to, I don't quite believe these people

- Most post-order brides were rather desperate to get married and determined to make the best of what they got, and they didn't have much expectations. Basically just to get married, and hopefully the husband to be was a good man. These “ladies” behave like brats.

- there's a bit too much diversity in this group of women.
A traveler woman in the 19th century would not end up among “lost sheep” to go and marry some anybody out there. Her family would take very good care of her. If she wanted to hide her heritage and pretend to not be a traveler, she wouldn't dress “like a gypsy”, what ever that means. I imagine a masquerade costume.
And of course there would be a Latina to marry the Latino. We couldn't possibly marry a good white girl to “Nacho”, now, could we?
And probably the Chinese man will marry the Chinese girl, in spite of everything :-D Let's see what happens here.
Interesting that they didn't put in black people as well... perhaps she thought that would be too difficult to handle.

- the language is a bit... problematic.
A 19th century lady wouldn't need to mind her words, because she didn't have any inappropriate words in her vocabulary. I find this so surprising with people, 19th century ladies didn't need to be careful about not swearing, because they wouldn't ever swear, because they didn't have the need to swear nor the habit. They dealt with situations with other words - or without words.