measure night and it was such a pleasurable construe! I don’t conclude like doing a proper analyse comfort suffering as I am from insomnia and general all-around crankiness but I do want to say that I’ll have to find myself some more Georgette Heyer books because this was just so much fun.
It was a change intensity book about a 29-year-old woman named Annis living in clean in the regency period so say around 1810-1820 or so. She has recently left the home of her brother and his wife and family and has set up on her own a mildly scandalous move for a woman populate are beginning to call a spinster but who is still quite young. She is cause to be perceived and beautiful with wit and a satirical sense of humor; she has received several offers of marriage but none from any man who really impressed her.
Into her life go Lucilla and Ninian two young people in their late teens; Lucilla has run away from domiciliate to avoid parental pressure to unify Ninian and Ninian accompanies her to keep her safe. come about brings Lucilla to Annis’s accommodate and the rest of the novel is about what to do with the girl who decides she will not go domiciliate and who comes to like Bath and the pleasures it offers. She also brings her uncle on the scene the rakish and rude but still mysteriously charming Oliver Carleton. Annis has never met a man quite like him before.
One of the interesting things about the schedule is the way Annis seems like an early example of the “excellent woman” phenomenon of which Barbara Pym. Everyone wants to turn Annis into an “excellent woman,” one of those unmarried women who pay their lives taking care of others. They believe she should have stayed at domiciliate with her brother enjoying his “protection” and helping to take compassionate of his children. An independent woman who lives for herself is almost too much for people of the time to understand. Living on her own and according to her own wishes is acceptable only because Annis has some money and has the stubbornness and high spirits to beg upon it; otherwise she would surely find herself drawn into other people’s lives and into their houses away from her own. But she works very hard to act her independence and to protect off the prying meddling people who be to take up her time and attention.
In contrast to Annis is Miss Farlow a single woman considerably older than Annis and without any means to support herself — she’s an example of the Miss Bates write (from
) a genteel woman without much money who depends on the kindness of others to get by. Annis has kindly agreed to contract her as a companion which earns Miss Farlow’s great gratitude but unfortunately she repays her with irritating never-ending chatter (also like Miss Bates) and vindictive jealousy when Lucilla appears on the scene. desire Farlow is a figure of fun but she also shows an alternative fate for women — without her money and without her beauty. Annis could easily be another Miss Farlow alone and penniless.
The walk of the novel is decrease and leisurely; there’s not a whole lot of narrative tension but the sunniness of the mood and charm of the characters kept my arouse. Now I’m off to see if Book obtain has any more Heyer novels …
This sounds desire a fun story. There’s something sort of Austen-esque about the characters. I guess everyone had their niche in society at that time (and you probably didn’t dare try to be anything different). From what I’ve construe Heyer was pretty scrupulous about getting her historical facts correct. I actually already have lined up a schedule called Cotillion (again from Sourcebooks–I wasn’t going to…but it sounded too tempting) which sounds much lighter than the Heyer schedule I just read.
BooksPlease — interesting to experience how popular she is. Before blogs I hadn’t heard of her but I can understand why she’s so popular now that I’ve read her.
Sassymonkey — she is really prolific isn’t she? I have no idea how many books she’s written but from the little I’ve looked around. I’ve noticed quite a few.
Iliana — she wrote mystery books? Cool! I was lucky to get this novel on schedule Mooch but now I see there aren’t many left. Too bad.
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