Ketika Miss Annis Wynchwood yang mandiri dan bersemangat melibatkan diri dalam hubungan dengan seorang ahli waris yang melarikan diri dan tak peduli omongan orang lain, ia tak menyangka bahwa hidupnya akan berbeda. Annis menjalin persahabatan dengan Lucilla dan Mr. Oliver Carleton, wali gadis tersebut. Persahabatannya dengan gadis itu membawa banyak konsekuensi pada diri Annis. Konflik emosional pun tak jarang terjadi. Di mata Annis, wali Lucilla merupakan lelaki terkasar yang pernah ditemuinya. Annis takkan pernah menyangka bahwa takdirnya akan berubah di kemudian hari. Ketidaksukaannya kepada Carleton akan membawanya pada jalan asmara yang berliku dan berkelok. Saudara Annis, Sir Geoffrey Wychwood, langsung mengirimkan istri dan anak-anaknya ke Bath begitu dia mendengar rumor kedekatan Annis dan Carleton. Kedatangan mereka membuat Annis terserang influenza karena kelelahan. Carleton yang mendengar berita sakitnya Annis tak membuang-buang waktu untuk datang ke Bath, dan mengajukan lamaran ulang kepada gadis pujaannya. Novel sejarah Georgette Heyer telah memukau jutaan pembaca. Kecerdasan dan kemandirian tokoh utamanya mencerahkan salah satu era dalam sejarah Inggris, ketika ruang pesta berkilauan dengan baju-baju indah bangsawan, dan intrik-intrik romantis yang berlangsung sepanjang hari. [Mizan, Noura Books, Fantasy, Imagination, Young Adult, Indonesia]
From the author of the children's classics The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy comes this richly atmospheric novel for adults about a tempestuous heroine in the days of Queen Anne.
Although the hero's personality is similar to that of many of Heyer's other heroes, in a departure from romance novel convention he experienced little personal growth in the novel; his primary change was to accept that he would like to have ...
The story describes the romantic relationship between Annis Wychwood, a wealthy spinster, and Oliver Carleton, a rake who cares little for society's opinion of him. The two meet while jointly supervising Carleton's ward, Lucilla.
Lady of Quality is the last Regency romance novel written by Georgette Heyer. It was first published in 1972 and was the last of her novels to be published during her lifetime.
The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
" Thought of as a departure from her previous work, and set in the early Eighteenth Century, the body in question turns out to be that of Sir John Oxon, killed with riding whip by the book's heroine, Clorinda Wildairs: A Lady of Quality is ...
A Lady of Quality: Easyread Comfort Edition
A woman of independent means and spirit, stunning Annis Wynchwood has no yearning for wedlock, and has dashed the hopes of many lordly suitors.
It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett. In addition to a play version of the novel, which debuted in 1897 featuring Julia Arthur, silent-film adaptations were released in 1913 and 1924.
It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett. In addition to a play version of the novel, which debuted in 1897 featuring Julia Arthur, silent-film adaptations were released in 1913 and 1924.