A Regency Romance.
Annis is fortunate in that she is young, beautiful and wealthy. She is also very independent for a woman of her time and station and, at the age of twenty-nine, is living in a home of her own with an older female relative as a companion.
Since she has enough money to live as she chooses, Annis never felt the desire to get married. She had plenty of suitors and offers of marriage but turned them all down. So Annis and her companion live on their own in the resort town of Bath. That is until Annis encountered a young couple in trouble on the side of the road after their gig lost a wheel.
Lucy and her good friend Ninian are escaping from their families who are putting pressure on the two to get married. Lucy is very young, pretty, and wealthy and she and Ninian, who lives next door, grew up together and have no romantic inclinations toward each other. Lucy's parents are dead and she has been living with her aunt, but her guardian is Oliver Carleton, a notorious member of London society.
After Annis rescued Lucy and Ninian, she felt sorry for Lucy's situation and invited her to stay with her at her home in Bath. And that is how Oliver Carleton entered Annis' life and turned everything upside down for her.
I have read this novel three or four times in the past and it was never one of my favorites. But that was when I was a lot younger. When I read it again this time, I enjoyed it more than I did previously. It's the humor that I probably didn't notice so much when I was younger. Oliver Carleton is not mealy mouthed and his pursuit of Annis is quite enjoyable and often amusing.
Here is a review by Elizabeth Hanbury on Austenprose.
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