With illustrations by C. D. Williams. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1901 edition by Frederick A. Stokes, Company, New York.
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Frances Hodgson Barnett was born in 1849 in Manchester, England and in died in 1924 in Plandome, New York. In her lifetime, she wrote 55 titles, five of which were bestsellers. Thirteen stories and novels were adapted for the stage in England or America.
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A First-Rate Edwardian Romance.,
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This review is from: The Making of a Marchioness (Paperback)
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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Hooray for Persephone!,
By Megan "Megan" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Making of a Marchioness (Paperback)
Though famous for her children't books nowadays, this is one of Burnett's books for grown-ups. It is a sort of cheesy romance, but oh is it fun! Republished by Persephone Books, an independant published in London, this book is well worth purchasing: you'll read it again and again whenever you're looking for a fun, light, and well-written book on a rainy day.Written a hundred years ago, there is a sort of paternalistic-bordering-on-rascist attitude towards the Indian characters, but I don't think it's anything too egregious. When you've read this book, read "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," by Winifred Watson and also published by Persephone.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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wonderful book,
By "novelbyxmas" (Dalton, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Making of a Marchioness (Paperback)
I bought this book and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst (the sequel) just before my wedding. They are charming "shopgirl novels" in the nicest possible way. Poverty and difficulty at the start, marriage love and riches at the end. A lovely glimpse at another time.
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WHEN Miss Fox-Seton descended from the twopenny bus as it drew up, she gathered her trim tailor-made skirt about her with neatness and decorum, being well used to getting in and out of twopenny buses and to making her way across muddy London streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Maria, Lady Agatha, Emily Fox-Seton, Lord Walderhurst, Miss Fox-Seton, Mortimer Street, Miss Brooke, Miss Cora Brooke, Castle Clare, Jane Cupp, Lady Claraway, Sir Bruce Norman, Curzon Street, Mallowe Court, South Audley Street New!
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WHEN Miss Fox-Seton descended from the twopenny bus as it drew up, she gathered her trim tailor-made skirt about her with neatness and decorum, being well used to getting in and out of twopenny buses and to making her way across muddy London streets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Maria, Lady Agatha, Emily Fox-Seton, Lord Walderhurst, Miss Fox-Seton, Mortimer Street, Miss Brooke, Miss Cora Brooke, Castle Clare, Jane Cupp, Lady Claraway, Sir Bruce Norman, Curzon Street, Mallowe Court, South Audley Street New!
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- English Novel in History, 1895-1920 by David Trotter on page 55, page 123, and Back Matter
- Francis Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina on page 225, and Back Matter
- The Secret Garden (Oxford World's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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