The Making of a Marchioness
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Book Summary Information
Author: Frances Hodgson BurnettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-05
ISBN: 1402169140
Number of pages: 198
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
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Book Review: A First-Rate Edwardian Romance.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a brief but pleasant romance, occasionally sold under the title of "Emily Fox-Seton".
Emily is thirty-four years old, of excellent family background with a good "woman's education". Unfortunately, Emily is penniless and has to make her own living. Fortunately, Emily is practical, intelligent and extremely good natured. She has been dealt a poor hand but cheerfully makes the best of it.
Emily survives by Being Useful to noble and upper middle class ladies for a modest remuneration. Emily locates and recruits reliable servants, performs secretarial duties and runs errands for these patrons.
As the story opens, Lady Maria Bayne has invited Emily to her country estate to help with her annual "early August party". This year, the houseparty's draw will be the wealthy, widowed Marquis of Wanderhurst who is looking for a wife.
The reader is introduced to the potential contenders to the title of Marchioness. The American heiress, Cora Brooke, who has everything money can buy, excepting a Noble title. The beautiful debutante success of the last Social Season, Lady Agatha Slade, who must marry to save her family from absolute penury. And the widowed writer, clever Mrs Ralph, ready for another success. The hunt is on and it is all very entertaining.
One of interesting sidelights into this rarefied society is how much more freedom and self-determination is available to self-employed Emily when compared with the constricted and confined lives of the heiress and the debutante.
Recommended.
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