Marriage Mart [Paperback]

Norma Lee Clark (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Signet (March 6, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451128168
• ISBN-13: 978-0451128164
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #870,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written account of the status of women in the Regency., August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Marriage Mart (Paperback)

If you are a fan of Regency novels, FIND A COPY OF THIS BOOK. It is one of the best in the genre.

This is an extremely well-written account of the role and status of women during the Regency period. Ms. Clarke skillfully weaves socio-economic and psychology lessons into a very affecting book. These are characters you grow to care about. Even the "not so nice" characters are presented in full dimension. No cookie-cutter bad guys here.

It is one of the few in the genre that I have re-read.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not your usual romantic read, October 4, 2011

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Flower Girl (MN, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marriage Mart (Paperback)

I agree with all three of the reviews--while the writing was very good, the characters' study was keen, the romance definitely was not the usual "clean" and "harmless" regency romance. This story was a darker relationships of the marriage mart of that period. It offered all sorts of scenarios: marriage of convenience, loveless marriage, abusive marriage, by-blows, mistresses, and scandals. I wouldn't say these cases didn't exist even in the sweet, innocent Jane Austen era, but perhaps was these realities that made it harder to read. I myself found it was admirable for Ms. Clark to bring out these issues, but I sometimes liked to read romantic stories for the purpose of getting away from the realities... Hopefully this review offered some guidance for certain readers in the certain moods.

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was looking for, August 7, 2010

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Heyerfan (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marriage Mart (Paperback)

I enjoyed Fanny, by this author, quite a bit. I was expecting something similar with this novel, a sweet, clean romance. The writing was still good, but that's where the similarities ended. This story was far from sweet or clean. If you don't mind the hero having mistresses while married to the heroine, or the author using a sexually depraved scene to show you how evil the villian is, this book might work for you. But this was definitely not the book for me!