Secrets Of A Spinster

Author : Rebecca Connolly
Publisher : Phase Publishing, LLC
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943048090

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Behind every little secret... Mary Hamilton has had enough of being passed over by all of the eligible men in London, though she's had years and years of practice, and she's ready to give it up. But before she hangs up her dancing shoes for good, she wants one season of everything she's never had - invitations, flirtation, and suitors. But will all of that actually give her what she's always secretly wanted? ...there's another secret waiting... Geoffrey Harris is more than happy to spend his time being permanent escort to Mary during her final season in London. After all, she's been his best friend for years, and what better way to send her off than in grand style? But when her plan actually starts to work, he isn't so sure he wants any part of it, leaving him to wonder what it is he does want. Or who.

Author : Emily Larkin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622668816

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The Spinster's Secret by Emily Larkin Pdf

The Spinster's Secret by Emily Larkin Penniless spinster, Matilda Chapple, lives at isolated Creed Hall, dependent on the austere charity of unloving relatives and under pressure to marry a man twice her age. In an attempt to earn enough money to escape this miserable existence, she writes a series of titillating 'confessions'. Her secret is safe -- until battle-scarred Waterloo veteran, Edward Kane, reluctantly accepts the commission to uncover the anonymous author's identity. While staying at bleak Creed Hall, Edward finds himself unaccountably drawn to his host's lonely niece. Can Matilda conceal the secret of her scandalous writings, or will Edward discover that the spinster and the risqué authoress are one and the same person? And when Matilda feels the need to experience sex as her fictional courtesan does--will she lose her heart to Edward, along with her virginity?

Author : Emily Larkin
Publisher : Emily Larkin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780994138484

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The Spinster’s Secret by Emily Larkin Pdf

A resourceful spinster, a battle-scarred officer, a scandalous secret … and some of the worst food in England! Matilda Chapple is orphaned, penniless, and dependent on her uncle’s meager charity—but she’s finally found a way to earn her livelihood. With the help of an old diary and a lurid novel she’ll write her way to financial independence! When Mattie pens a series of racy short stories, she starts earning money ... and notoriety. Her secret is safe—until battle-scarred Waterloo veteran, Edward Kane, agrees to uncover the anonymous author’s identity. Can Mattie conceal the secret of her scandalous writings, or will Edward discover that the respectable spinster and the risqué authoress are one and the same person? A sensual and deeply emotional Regency romance from award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Emily Larkin. Length: A full-length novel of 71,000 words Heat level: A Regency romance with steamy love scenes If you love richly detailed historical romances brimming with passion, humor, emotion, and compelling characters, then this is the novel for you! (The Spinster’s Secret is the second book in the Midnight Quill Trio, but may be read as a standalone.)

Author : Zoë S. Roy
Publisher : Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 1771336056

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Spinster Kang by Zoë S. Roy Pdf

Thirty-two-year-old Kang is a new immigrant in Toronto. Having an older sister who was raped and suffers from the ensuing stigma in China, Kang is determined to remain a spinster, which has its own stigma in China, and she struggles with her fear and distrust of men. But Kang's story is not a hard luck story. She is an intelligent woman and a successful immigrant. Kang deals with the perplexities of a different culture by maintaining a sense of curiosity, an enjoyment of learning about the new culture, and by finding humour rather than the humiliation that so often characterizes descriptions of immigrant experience. Kang rooms with Tania, a Russian immigrant, and learns that many years earlier, Tanya was in love with a Chinese medical student at Moscow University who was abruptly returned to China for having had a relationship with her. Kang's own father once studied at that university but has never talked about it since he was forced to leave Moscow and then was labelled as a rightist during the Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign. Since then her father has been dispatched to work and live in Kunming, a city far away from Beijing. Could the paths of her father and Tania have ever crossed? Curious about her father's past, Kang decides to pay a visit to Moscow, accompanied by Brian, Tania's nephew, a charming engineer who wants to explore his Russian Jewish roots. Spending time with Brian helps Kang to see how much her sister's tragedy has shadowed her life. When Brian suddenly shows symptoms of schizophrenia, Kang must decide whether to throw her spinster's hat away or end her relationship with Brian.

Author : Anthony Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0856177717

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Author : Kate Bolick
Publisher : Crown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385347143

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Spinster by Kate Bolick Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.

Author : Lucy Beatrice Malleson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:20390446

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The Spinster's Secret by Lucy Beatrice Malleson Pdf

Author : Holly Bourne
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781474927574

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...And a Happy New Year? by Holly Bourne Pdf

Same bench. Same view. Same girls. And yet totally different girls. Evie, Amber and Lottie are having a New Year party to remember! For the first time since leaving college, all three girls are back together. It’s time for fun and flirting, snogs and shots. (And not tears and tantrums or horrible secrets.) Because everything’s going right for these girls – Spinster Club for ever! Right?

Author : Cathy Maxwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062655790

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The Duke That I Marry by Cathy Maxwell Pdf

Once upon a time there were three young ladies who, despite their fortunes, had been on the marriage mart a bit too long. They were known as “the Spinster Heiresses” . . . Is it wrong for a woman to want more? Not if she is a Spinster Heiress. They do not settle. Any young miss would be very lucky to find herself promised to a man like the Duke of Camberly. However, Miss Willa Reverly has watched her friends marry for love. Camberly may be the prize of the season, but she will not be “sold” to any man. She wants his devotion or she wants nothing at all. When is a Marriage of Convenience inconvenient? Newly named to the ducal title, Matthew Addison is determined to discover the secrets behind Mayfield, the bankrupt estate he has inherited. He doesn’t have time to coddle a headstrong heiress who is determined to ditch him over something as silly as “love.” Little does he know that his questions will place her in jeopardy. Now he must do what he must to save them both. Could it be that in running from danger they might be racing headlong into a truly unexpected fate: falling in love?

Author : Annabelle Anders
Publisher : Perfect Regency Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798215768310

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The Perfect Spinster by Annabelle Anders Pdf

Flirtatious attractions threaten to erupt in passion, but duty and honor forbid anything more. Olivia labors under no misapprehension that anything other than spinsterhood lies in her future because of one tiny flaw...one might even call it a curse. Until, that is, she falls for the charming but unattainable, Lord Kingsley. Kingsley is irresistibly intrigued by the Miss Olivia Redfield, and delights himself in their mutual provocation. In no position to promise more than a dalliance, Gabriel takes the unprecedented step of befriending a woman.

Author : Charlotte Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1393384315

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Historical Romance by Charlotte Stone Pdf

Book 08 in The Spinster's Society series - A Historical Romance BookNatalia Hext-- or rather Leah Wells-- has a secret that the Men of Nashwood would kill for. Circumstances have forced her to keep her true identity hidden. It is unfortunate that the boy she once knew, now a very handsome man, is eager to expose her secrets in the most cruel and sensual of ways. William Tift knows there's more to the eye than what the cryptic Mrs. Wells presents to the world.Something about Leah is not quite right. He'll find out what it is, never mind that he feels a familiarity with her.The point is, she knows too much and William will do what he must to keep her quiet. But Leah won't go down easily. When with each encounter, the sexual tension becomes harder to ignore. ... as do their hidden feelings. What will happen when Leah's true identity is revealed?And when secrets come to light, will love stand strong or fall under its weight?

Author : Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822322714

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The Web of Iniquity by Catherine Ross Nickerson Pdf

Post-Civil War detective fiction, written mostly by women, considered in relation to other forms of sentimental and domestic fiction.

Author : Mary A. Fisher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752577099

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A Spinster's Story by Mary A. Fisher Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Author : Julie Klassen
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441264824

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The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen Pdf

Praise for Julie Klassen "A remarkable tale with many unpredictable twists and turns."--CBA Retailers+Resources "A treat for [readers] who want their historical romances served up with a generous dash of mystery."--Booklist "[Klassen's] work appeals to all who seek a riveting Regency romance."--RT Book Reviews Abigail Foster is the practical daughter. She fears she will end up a spinster, especially as she has little dowry, and the one man she thought might marry her seems to have fallen for her younger, prettier sister. Facing financial ruin, Abigail and her father search for more affordable lodgings, until a strange solicitor arrives with an astounding offer: the use of a distant manor house abandoned for eighteen years. The Fosters journey to imposing Pembrooke Park and are startled to find it entombed as it was abruptly left: tea cups encrusted with dry tea, moth-eaten clothes in wardrobes, a doll's house left mid-play... The handsome local curate welcomes them, but though he and his family seem acquainted with the manor's past, the only information they offer is a stern warning: Beware trespassers drawn by rumors that Pembrooke Park contains a secret room filled with treasure. This catches Abigail's attention. Hoping to restore her family's finances--and her dowry--Abigail looks for this supposed treasure. But eerie sounds at night and footprints in the dust reveal she isn't the only one secretly searching the house. Then Abigail begins receiving anonymous letters, containing clues about the hidden room and startling discoveries about the past. As old friends and new foes come calling at Pembrooke Park, secrets come to light. Will Abigail find the treasure and love she seeks...or very real danger?

Author : Mary Ann Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Single women
ISBN : NYPL:33433076066103

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A Spinster's Story by Mary Ann Fisher Pdf