![]() ![]() At the house party, Emily is in limbo, not fully a guest and yet not quite the help, but she quickly makes friends with the others and is a great help to Lady Mary who soon abuses her power over Emily. Amongst the guests is her nephew Lord Walderhurst, a middle-aged widower whom she is determined to matchmake with a suitably connected young lady. ![]() ![]() It is because of her efficiency that Lady Maria Bayne has taken an interest and asked her to come up to her country seat to help with her house party. She’s a keen, engaging woman, not too bright but always looking on the bright side of things. Originally from aristocratic stock, her family have gone down in the world and now orphaned, she lives in a boarding house for ladies and runs errands for wealthy society patrons. I didn’t really know anything about it, which was a good thing.Įmily Fox-Seton is a spinster of 30. ![]() I prefer to read the book before seeing an adaptation only because I tend to be rather lazy afterwards and not bother. I decided to start with The Making of a Marchioness purely because there was going to be a tv adaptation during Christmas. But when I heard that Persephone Books have re-issued a couple of Burnett’s adult novels, I was very curious indeed. I’m rather wary of revisiting childhood favourites because my reading pace has changed as much as my taste in fiction (i.e. How I yearned to be a little lost orphan boy with golden ringlets and an immense fortune. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy was one of my favourite books in childhood. ![]()
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