The romance hero who has had a million relationships in his past finds true love and reforms, but how many romance arcs (in or outside of romance novels) have sexually adventuress heroines who reform? Because you can’t redeem whores, apparently.
Camille, the archetypal whore with a heart of gold, reforms for love, and then dies sooner when she goes back to her old ways through "sacrifice" and not conviction. I think there may be some other French 19th century examples of that sort of thing if I think hard.
Hmm. Marguerite of Navarre in La Reine Margot.
Carmen is more one of your anti-heroines, I take it. Not a whore, just a serial flirt and monogamist. And not very nice at all to her former beaus when she falls out of love.
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Camille, the archetypal whore with a heart of gold, reforms for love, and then dies sooner when she goes back to her old ways through "sacrifice" and not conviction. I think there may be some other French 19th century examples of that sort of thing if I think hard.
Hmm. Marguerite of Navarre in La Reine Margot.
Carmen is more one of your anti-heroines, I take it. Not a whore, just a serial flirt and monogamist. And not very nice at all to her former beaus when she falls out of love.