{"product_id":"the-making-of-a-marchioness","title":"The Making of a Marchioness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 341px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/29-Making_of_a_Marchioness.jpg?v=1593034188\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY ISABEL RAPHAEL\u003cbr\u003eAFTERWORD BY GRETCHEN GERZINA\u003cbr\u003e328pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155141\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of a Marchioness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1901) was one of Nancy Mitford's favourite books; in\u003cem\u003e The Pursuit of Love, \u003c\/em\u003eLinda puts a copy of it in the window \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the Red bookshop, where she works, in place of\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003eKarl Marx: the Formative Years. \u003c\/em\u003eToday, a number of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eUS college courses teach it alongside \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e. It is indeed a remarkably good read from this most beloved author of \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLittle Lord Fauntleroy\u003c\/em\u003e and Persephone favourite \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shuttle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike Miss Pettigrew in \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, the heroine of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Making of a Marchioness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 'is a sort of Cinderella,' wrote Frances Hodgson Burnett to her publisher, 'a solid, kind, unselfish creature who arrives at a good fortune almost comic because it is in a sense so incongruous.' Emily Fox-Seton never imagines her life will change: she is quite content living in a bedsitting room in Mortimer Street in Marylebone and supporting herself. ' \"It is her fate to be a woman who is perfectly well born, and who is as penniless as a charwoman, and works like one. She is at the beck and call of any one who will give her an odd job to earn a meal with. That is one of the new ways women have found of making a living.' \" She is contrasted with a society beauty, Lady Agatha Slade, who is also poor but can do nothing but wait for a husband. ' \"She has had the advertising of the illustrated papers this season, and she has gone well. But she has not had any special offer, and I know she and her mother are a little frightened.\" '\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePart I, the original \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarchioness,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was written in London in two weeks early in 1901 followed\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in the spring of the same year by Part \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eII, \u003cem\u003eThe Methods of Lady Walderhurst\u003c\/em\u003e. The sequel\u003c\/span\u003e is an absorbing melodrama; most novels end 'and they lived happily ever after', but this one develops into a realistic commentary on late-Victorian marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Delightful... A sparky sense of humour combined with lively social commentary make this a joy to read' wrote the \u003cem\u003eBookseller\u003c\/em\u003e. Kate Saunders told \u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e listeners that she was up until two in the morning finishing this 'wildly romantic tale whose hero and heroine are totally unromantic' (\u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e); the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e referred to 'a touch of Edith Wharton's stern unsentimentality'; the \u003cem\u003eSpectator \u003c\/em\u003ewrote about the novel's 'singular charm'; and the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/em\u003estressed the 'sharp observations in this charming tale.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as a Persephone Classic, a Persephone Audiobook and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ea Persephone e-book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpaper fabric is a 1901 figured cotton called 'Tulips', which is simple, cheerful and graceful; Emily might have picked tulips at Mallowe Court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eRupert Bunny 'Portrait of the Artist's Wife', 1902\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Frances Hodgson Burnett","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098764857651,"sku":"scd1789694482326","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098764890419,"sku":"ntm1789694482327","price":32.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098764923187,"sku":"lbi1789694482328","price":36.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098764955955,"sku":"xct1789694482329","price":53.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/the-making-of-a-marchioness_1.jpg?v=1789694486","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/the-making-of-a-marchioness","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}