Whereas most novels end 'and they lived happily ever after', Part Two of this one, showing the sometimes unhappy 'after', is such a realistic commentary on late-Victorian marriage that Marghanita Laski also called it a 'cruel revelation of the nature of Edwardian high society'. The first part, the original Marchioness, is a touching love story in the tradition of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and the second, called The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, is an absorbing melodrama. Yet Marchioness was one of Nancy Mitford's favourite books, was considered 'the best novel Mrs Hodgson Burnett wrote' by Marghanita Laski and is taught on a university course in America together with novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Daisy Miller.
She had written Little Lord Fauntleroy fifteen years before and would write The Secret Garden in ten years time it is these two books for which she is best known.
She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.Frances Hodgson Burnett published The Making of a Marchioness in 1901.
Bettina sets about to rectify matters.įrances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 –1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She finds Rosalie shabby and dispirited, cowed by her husband's ill treatment. Years later her younger sister Bettina, beautiful, intelligent and extremely rich, goes to England to find what has happened to her sister. She all but loses contact with her family in America. The Shuttle is about American heiresses marrying English aristocrats by extension it is about the effect of American energy and dynamism rejuvenating a somewhat decadent English aristocracy: Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. It was begun in 1900 but frequently abandoned while its author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, wrote several other books, including, most famously, The Making of a Marchioness. The second, originally titled The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, is a down-to-earth portrayal of the realities of Victorian marriage, with a bit of a Victorian sensation vibe to it. It was originally published in two parts: the first tells the fairy tale-like story of how our heroine, Emily Fox-Seton, became the Marchioness of Walderhurst. This carefully crafted ebook: “The Making of a Marchioness + The Shuttle (2 Unabridged Classic Romances)” contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
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