


And that's not actually true, progress tends to move ahead and then back,” Clare explains. “We tend to think of progression as just being a straight line forward, with the past sort of all lumped into a general area of not as enlightened as we are now. This, Clare explains, is particularly important.

And, while she admits that the Edwardian era was full of great advances, society at this time still held the youth to a specific set of standards - many of which the Shadowhunters in Chain of Gold refuse to adhere to, tossing traditional gender roles of the time to the side without much thought.
