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But it doesn't matter a bit. The sweet character of the heroine and the charm of the narrative keep the reader totally engaged.

Miss Emily Fox-Seton is thirty-five, steeped in genteel poverty, and quite cheerfully making do. She runs errands and does various secretarial services for rich patrons. She dresses with style on very little, appreciates every good thing that comes her way - and is perfectly unaware of her remarkable qualities.

One of her patrons, old Lady Maria, invites Miss Fox-Seton to her country estate to help organize her summer entertaining. Miss Fox-Seton is thrilled to be getting a week in the county.

Lady Maria's nephew, the widowed Marquis of Walderhurst, will be there. So will several gorgeous young women who would be happy to marry him. And the tale enfolds.

This book was published in 1901, during the same era that New Woman literature was on the scene. But Miss Emily Fox-Seton is not a New Woman, even though she has the organizational powers of a high level PR executive.

The Making of a Marchioness is a frothy, romantic, nostalgic societal fairy tale told with wit and grace. At the same time, there's something oddly deep about the portrait of Miss Fox-Seton, who sees everyone as kind and almost everything as delightful.