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Peerless Theodosia

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How fortunate that Peerless Theodosia has been published again for those of us who missed it twenty years ago. It is a marvelous, funny story with an enchanting cast of characters. Included are the Americans, Theodosia and her brother Jefferson, nervously living in England while the two countries are at war; Lady Southcote, their gracious hostess; her son, Lord Stockwood, suspicious of his mother's guests, and the Marquess of Torville, leader of the ton. Theodosia manages to delight, annoy, and worry these and other characters before at last finding true happiness.

Rebecca Baldwin is one of the best -- and least known -- writers of Regency fiction. Peerless Theodesia is my favorite book of hers. The hero and the heroine are Americans who turn the ton upside down. This is a marvelous book -- many thanks to Regency Press for bringing it back in this reprise edition.

Rebecca Baldwin is one of the best and least known Regency authors, and Peerless Theodosia is one of her most enjoyable romps. Theodosia is completely believable as an unsual Regency heroine -- an American miss with ideas of her own. Of course, Theodosia does find love at the end of this novel

All the characters are individuals who survive their visitors and discover they are better off because they knew the peerless Theodosia.

This reprise novel by Regency Press will delight all Regency readers and should draw many new fans.

Jane Myers Perrine

I bought this book because I LOVE the author's writing in her own name of Helen Chappell. And because I am a fan of Georgette Heyer, who indeed was "peerless".

While not difficult to read at one sitting, I found the story to be quite a reprise on Heyer's Grand Sophy, with a bit of Sylvester and Arabella thrown in.

It is difficult to believe that the "peerless", uppity, confident and competent Theodosia would fall apart and act stupidly in running away from a situation that she could have so easily controlled!

Sorry, "Rebecca"! So glad you grew up to be a much better writer of much better fiction! Another Sam and Hollis, please!