The illegitimate daughter of a Duke and his official mistress, Amelia has lived a very careful life designed to counteract the scandal of her birth. Unable to cope with that anymore, and the increasing sense of her own disappearance into the costume of a respectable lady, Amelia walked right out of society — and the dancefloor in the middle of a waltz — to a small village in the English countryside where she could have her nervous breakdown in peace.
Prickly, furious and dealing with serious social anxiety Amelia is an awkward and extremely intelligent woman who spends her time writing occasionally smutty historical novels and tramping about the countryside scandalously alone with only her very large dog for company. Simultaneously tired of her blend into the background social camouflage and the dresses designed to achieve this she also can’t bear the thought of anyone actually looking at her, craving company and to be left entirely alone at the same time. Despite her rage and general hostility to anyone outside of her family and a small number of friends, Amelia remains a compassionate person, drawn into caring about several new people almost against her will while falling in love with another socially awkward bisexual disaster.
Possessed of a charming disregard, or disdain really, for most social norms and a practical sense of when you have to conform to them or use them as a shield she also takes a deeply pragmatic approach to her sexuality. Raised by a mother intent on demystifying sex so as to ensure her daughters were careful Amelia has no shame in either her bisexuality or the sexual exploits she managed to achieve while maintaining a public pretense of purity — seeing the prohibition on women having extramarital sex as yet another controlling double standard from the society she loathes.