by Esther Hatch
Covenant Communications, Inc. 2019. 222 pages. Romance.
Grace Sinclair has been callously cast out of her home after six years living with the vicar and his family. Thankfully, Grace's estranged Aunt Bell from London has agreed to care for her. But, it takes only a moment's acquaintance for Grace to ascertain that her aunt has married a detestable rake who may not be able to resister her beauty. Recognizing the danger of having her lovely niece too near her husband, Aunt Bell gives Grace an ultimatum: the young woman has two weeks to find a man to marry, after which she will be turned out. With time not on her side her only choice is to entrap a man so society forces them to marry. But Grace is a proper lady and lying and deceiving go against her nature. She quickly realizes that a worthy suitor might not be so easy to ensnare.
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When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence. But he couldn't be more mistaken--the maid is not only a lady of birth, she's the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentlemen, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption. The dismayed young lord has no choice but to marry Miss Catherine Thorndale, who lacks both money and refinement and assumes all men are as vicious as her guardian uncle.
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
by Robert Morrison
W.W. Norton & Company. 2019. 366 Pages. Nonfiction.
A surprising history of the era that brought our modern world decisively into view. Though the Victorians are often credited with ushering in our modern era, the seeds were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811- 1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler; around the regent surged a society of evangelicalism and hedonism, elegance and brutality, exuberance and despair. The arts showcased extraordinary writers and painters such as Austen, Byron, the Shelleys, Constable, and Turner. Science gave us the steam locomotive and the blueprint for the modern computer. Yet the dark side of the modern era was visible in the poverty, slavery, pornography, opium, and gothic imaginings that birthed Frankenstein. And all the while, the British Empire fought in foreign lands: the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the War of 1812 in the United States. Exploring these crosscurrents, Robert Morrison illuminates the profound ways this period shaped and indelibly marked the modern world.
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