Cat's Books: Romance

These are great Historical Romance novels in which the Hero or Heroine is a Cit, works for a living, or is part of the working class-commoners. British mostly. 

The culture clash and change over in social systems represented in these books is lovely fun.

Here is the definition of Cit from the Oxford English Dictionary. 

arch. 
1. a. Short for citizen; usually applied, more or less contemptuously, to a townsman or ‘cockney’ as distinguished from a countryman, or to a tradesman or shopkeeper as distinguished from a gentleman; Johnson says ‘A pert low townsman; a pragmatical trader’. 

1658 J. Cleveland Rupertismus (1659) , Let Isaac [i.e. Ld. Mayor Pennington] and his Citts flay off the plate That tips their antlers for the Calf of State. 

1674 A. Marvell Ballad, O ye addle-brain'd cits! 

1733 Pope Impertinent 10 Why Turnpikes rose, and why no Cit, nor Clown Can gratis see the Country, or the Town? 

1771 Johnson Falkland's Islands 56 The cits of London, and the boors of Middlesex. 

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. liv. 185, I intend to‥send it to New York for the cits to read. 

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 186 The low hills of Highgate, Hampstead, and Hornsey, the paradise of cits.

If you would like to vote for the best of the best of these kinds of love stories go to the Goodreads list: Love in the Working or Merchant Class. I would love to hear your favoirtes in this category!