Read Series: The School For Manners
by Author M.C. Beaton
Perfecting Fiona (1990)
"Every spinster of fifty, however sensible, has the soul of a seventeen-year-old virgin" p 80. "Perhaps sometimes, to our children, we shall seem a most unsuited couple, but marriage is like life -- exhilarating, dreadful, and often unfair .. But we shall know through thick and thin that we love...
Enlightening Delilah (1990)
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...
Finessing Clarissa (1990)
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...
Refining Felicity (1988)
I must admit I fell in love with this book and read it really really fast. It was a very light read, although at first it was a little hard to grow into the scenery of the story, but then I connected with the characters and all fell into place. The book tells the story of two spinster sisters, Ef...
Marrying Harriet (1991)
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 ...
Animating Maria (1990)
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...