![]() She disinherits her nephew and makes Marianne her secret heir right before she leaves.Īnd that’s when a highwayman came riding into this story and I thought, “Wait. If she doesn’t, then grandmother will drag her back to Bath to resume the lessons. Marianne is to learn lessons on how to act like an elegant young lady. Her grandmother allows Marianne to go with an exception. Marianne receives an invitation from Cecily to visit the Wyndham family’s country estate around the same time Grandmother receives word about her good-for-nothing nephew’s bad behavior. ![]() ![]() (Matchmaking ensues later where he is concerned, much like Austen’s Emma.) ![]() She’s too young and too gracious to tell him to leave her alone. She reminded me of Jane Austen’s Marianne Dashwood in “Sense & Sensibility.” Marianne has this insufferable older, slobbering goofball for an admirer who writes her terrible poetry. Grandmother wants Marianne to behave like an elegant young lady and not a wild child. Marianne misses her father and desperately wants to return home. ![]() Her father, in his grief, flees to France. Part of that reason is because she is sent to live with her grandmother in Bath not long after, while Cecily, her twin, is sent to London to enjoy a season. Marianne’s mother died while riding and she feels indirectly responsible, but responsible, nonetheless. I started reading Julianne Donaldson’s “Edenbrooke: A Proper Romance” as a nice bedtime story, but I found myself reading chapter after chapter…and not sleeping. ![]()
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