After reading this book, I am quite grateful to have been at the time and place that I was! Though young Henrietta is fictional, I have no doubt that there were many kernels of truth in her experience. Henrietta was raised by an aristocratic family, told that she was the orphaned daughter of the ...
In 1775, a shallow young baronet married an eighteen year old lady with far more money than looks or learning. They lived tolerably well together for a few years, until at last Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming Worsley ran away with their mutual friend, Maurice Bisset. The lovers hoped Sir Richard Wor...