WILL THE LAST BEVERLEY DAUGHTER MARRY FOR MANNERLING?Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverely, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitious mother to cast lures for the various owners of t...
Last of her six sisters left single, Frederica intends to avoid the marriage mart and runs away. In chambermaid disguise, Freddie joins the household of the fashionable Duke of Pembury. But that wild gentleman sees through her tricks, and escorts her back. When the sisters make over the tomboy, s...
When the Duke of Pelham returns to his town house at 67 Clarges Street, he is grimly determined to find a suitable wife--but completely unprepared for what the Season has to offer. The duke’s title alone has always brought him more than his share of feminine attention; claiming not to believe in ...
With Each London Season, an enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Townhouse at Number 67 Clarges Street. And There Below Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission--to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme ... to Bring Love Home toA HOUSE FOR THE SEASONBeauty is a powerful magnet, and every man...
Sir Philip Somerville "elderly tortoise" brings fat vulgar greedy mistress Mrs Budge into Poor Relation Hotel against wishes of owner elegant Lady Amelia Fortescue 70s and partners Colonel Sandhurst 70s, faded "sheep-like" Mrs Tonks 40s. The trio fund actor Jason Davy to woo away Mrs Budge and ma...
Lady Rose is bored with her society life. Her parents want to pack her off to India but luckily for Rose, Henry Cathcart suggests she be allowed to go out to work as she wishes. He arranges everything for Rose and Daisy to become typists for a merchant baker. Rose dislikes the make work she's giv...
Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre Armitage is determined to marry for love, rejecting the choice of their hunt-happy vicar father. Lord Harry Desire is well-bred, good-looking - and rich. Deirdre contrives to elope with dashing neighbor Guy Wentwater, a slaver who first courted her elder sister. Can ...
Miss Jennie Bemyss was in a position that any intelligent young lady would envy. The wealthy Marquis of Charrington has proposed a marriage of convenience, and the handsome Guy Chalmers, whom she has loved since childhood, proposed to aid her in enjoying her freedom to the fullest. Why, then, did...
Twenty-six year old Henrietta Sandford is the unmarried sister of a country vicar. Her brother takes every opportunity to remind her how much she owes him and to bully Henrietta. Henrietta falls instantly in love with Lord Reckford, a handsome Corinthian when he visits a country assembly and pays...
PASSION IN PERILPenelope has stolen the heart of the fabulous Earl of Hestleton--rich beyond words, handsome beyond compare, the most eligible lord in the realm--who thought he could toy with the pretty country miss, bring her out at Almack's, then toss her to the haut ton!But when the Earl learn...
1751 p 79 London. Lady Jane Lovelace 17 p 102, miniscule elfin 5', in rags, wants back the Westerby estate her alcoholic father "one of the most self-centred men in England, with or without his wits" p 249 lost to card cheat cousin James Bentley. Her godmother Lady Harriet Comfrey 65 talks mainly...
WHAT A PRETTY PICKLE SHE'D GOT INTO--AND IT TASTED MORE SOUR BY THE MOMENT! Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of Denbigh, she needed Miss Verity Bascombe. Surely the mo...
The newest master of 67 Clarges Street--that good address in London's fashionable Mayfair--is a single gentleman, the handsome, rich, and notorious rake Lord Guy Carlton. After years of fighting in the wars against Napoleon, the dashing lord is determined to kick up his heels with wine, women, an...
Maria Kendall is stunningly beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful--in short, a perfect candidate for marriage. Thus all of polite London society is astonished that she is the latest charge of Amy and Effy Tribble, eccentric spinsters specializing in making matches for unmarriageab...
Daisy Jenkins discovers that she is really The Honourable Daisy Chatterton after her aunt who has brought her up dies. She is sent to stay with the Earl and Countess of Nottenstone but soon finds that mixing in high society is not as easy as it appears especially when everyone seems to delight in...
Tribble twins, mannish Amy and fluffy Effy, groom minister's orphan Harriet Brown for the London Little Season. The black-tressed beauty captures the green eyes of Lord Charles Marsham to rescue green-eyed cat, enlists him to match the sisters to nabobs Haddon and Randolph, and dressmaker Yvette ...
HE WAS ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH TO TEMPT EVEN A VERY DEDICATED BLUESTOCKING!A woman of independent means with a healthy dose of cynicism about the male population, Harriet Tremayne is content with her circle of spinster friends and their devotion to literature, women's rights, and other intellectual int...
In the fourth volume in the School for Manners series, we meet another of the young ladies deemed unsuitable for the marriage mart because of some awkward attribute. This time it is the remarkably clumsy Clarissa Vevian, whose Junoesque proportions and flame-colored hair make her a daunting prosp...
Honoria Goodham is invited to London for the season by her aunt, Clarissa Dacey. She travels to London with the vicar’s wife, Pamela and together they settle down in Clarissa’s house after an eventful trip which includes the carriage breaking down outside the Duke of Ware’s house. Honoria and Pam...
Diana is the 5th of the six sisters and wants nothing to do with men other than to be one. She loves to ride and hunt and has her father's permission to hunt with the pack as long as she dresses like a man. Unfortunately, her father's friend, Squire Radford, discovers her disguise and lectures th...
In a nutshell: Alice is in love with Sir Gerald. Her parents orchestrate a break-up and marry her off to the new peer in town, the Duke of Farrant. A talking bird starts off the controversy. Misunderstandings and general nuttiness ensue.My opinion: Quite an amusing read...the first time. It's sti...
So many misunderstandings and the hero seemed determined to believe the worst of the heroine if he could. When he claimed to be in love at the end it was far too little too late. Contrasted with the hero in Miss Fiona's Fancy--excellent book, the hero in this book just came across as a jerk. Admi...
I read this after the first in the series but I didn't seem to miss anything that I didn't already know by skipping the second. Once again the Tribbles must come to the rescue of an exasperated parent. Squire Wraxall's daughter Delilah, still unmarried at the advanced age of three and twenty, has...
A MOST CURIOUS CHEMISTRYCertainly the two should never have met.The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious rake in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. And Miss Lucinda Westerville was a country vicar's daughter, as innocent as sh...
With Each London Season, an Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at number 67 Clarges Street. And There Below Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission--to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme ... to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE FOR THE SEASON Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf ...
Felicity Channing's stepfather ruled his home with a greedy, iron fist, and when he arranged a horrible marriage for her, Felicity used her quick wits and ran away to London--disguised as the Princess of Brasnia! Could she keep up the charade, or would handsome Lord Bellamy unmask her? Original R...
Captain Harry Cathcart returns to England from the Boer wars as taciturn man. The younger son of a Baron, he used to be happy-go lucky, but the war changed him. Now he is home, aimless and poor. Until his name is given to the Earl of Hadshire as someone who could help him with a problem. The r...
#67 Clarges Street is unlucky. Rental agent Palmer blackmails butler Rainbird and staff to stay for pittance of wages. From Scotland for the London Season, dazzling orphan Fiona sets her sights on haughty Earl of Harrington, and gives the servants first cut of her gambling winnings, insists she i...
I really enjoyed this book. It's a short and sweet little treat that can easily be read in one sitting. It's the story of Kitty, a very naive young thing, who has a decidedly middle-class upbringing but learns upon her father's death that she is very rich indeed. Her mother--who had always been s...
I'm usually a fan of Marion Chesney books but this one left me a little disappointed. I read her books only for light reading as they are usually mostly fluff. But they're usually good fluff. This one...eh. I'm not crazy about the whole "fall in love at first sight" style when it's also combined ...
"There you are!" shouted Emily. "You can barely hear me, which is not in the slightest amazing, since you are seated about a mile away." The earl picked up the decanter in one hand and his glass in the other and walked down the length of the table, pulled out a chair next to Emily, and sat down. ...
Madame Bailloux turned out, not to be the formidable dragon that Daisy had feared, but light-hearted and amusing. She set to teaching Daisy to speak French. She told Rose that the very thing to complete her recovery would be a gown made by the famous French couturier Paul Poiret. Paul Poiret, she...
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And those two weeks had made a great difference to his wife. She had become accustomed to the house and the servants in St. James’s Square. She had discovered the pleasures of shopping and sightseeing by herself. And she had several very pleasant outings with the chancellor of the exchequer. He r...
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