

The Bridgerton series was so popular and readers were so interested in what happened to them that Quinn eventually wrote more books on the family. She notes that fans also really liked the mysterious Lady Whistledown, who narrated the first four books in a sense through her gossip column. However, readers took to the family and the books and so did Julia Quinn, so she decided to write some more.

Quinn says that she originally intended the Bridgerton series to be a trilogy.

The children of the Viscount are named alphabetically so it starts off with Anthony, Benedict, and Colin, then goes on to Daphne, Eloise, and Francesca, and finally ends with Gregory and Hyacinth. There are eight children that have survived the late Viscount Bridgerton, and each novel features one of them. The first round of the Bridgerton series has eight novels in it, and each one focuses on a different child. It was quickly followed by The Viscount Who Loved Me, An Offer from a Gentleman, and five more books in the series, concluding with the 2006 release of the novel On the Way to the Wedding.

The Bridgerton series started in 2000 with the release of the debut novel in the series, The Duke and I. She is also the author of the Splendid Trilogy, the Lyndon Sisters series, the Agents of the Crown series, and much more in addition to her popular Bridgerton series. She won her third RITA Award in 2010, which made it three awards in four years. She has been the 13th author officially inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As an author, TIME Magazine and USA Today have both done profile pieces on her. Julia Quinn is recognized for her writing and her novels are so popular that they have sold worldwide and been translated into 28 languages at the moment. In addition to being an author, she came away with the $79,000 jackpot on the game show The Weakest Link in 2001 thanks in part to her correct answers on all things British, literary, historical and geographical. She enjoys writing romance novels and also putting the myth that intelligent women do not read or write these types of novels to bed once and for all. She is a New York Times bestselling author and known well for her popular Bridgerton series. Julia Quinn is the pen name of Julie Cotler Pottinger, an American author born in 1970.
