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Another lovely #Persephone. No spinster lit this time but a story that starts off as a Cinderella one (plain girl meets her prince) but ends somewhere completely different. Not my favorite but I did spend some pleasant hours with Emily Fox-Seton and Lord Walderhurst.

(Pic: Remembrance Day, Holocaust Monument)

#pop22 #SetInVictorianTimes

#WeeklyForecast 18/22

I am in the middle of two books for #ReadingAfrica2022 that I hope to finish this week. Also I want to treat myself to reading one #Persephone book a month. They really are the ultimate comfort reading. This month‘s is the tagged one.

This book rather surprised me with its drama and suspense! And I thoroughly enjoyed lovely Emily as the protagonist 💕
A gem of a book. Thanks @Reviewsbylola for the recommendation #newyearwhodis

A lovely book made even lovelier by this Persephone edition #persephone

I just bought my first two #persephone books! They are so lovely!

#bookmail. These arrived yesterday. Luckily my mailbox is air tight plastic. For it was raining like crazy last night. #persephone #persephonebooks

In this lovely Persephone edition, Emily is often taking a #walkinthepark as she is given the privilege of event planner at a country estate for a month. Lady Bayne is playing matchmaker for her widowed cousin, the Marquis, and she has many #sassy ladies lined up for him to meet.

What do you do with the beautiful bookmark included with each book? Tuck it back in? Or use it in other books?
#newyearreads #scenesfromabook

#funfridayphoto These are the books on my nightstand. Jane Eyre and Middlemarch are my all time favorite books, so they're always on my nightstand. The other Frances Hodgson Burnett book is one I've been thinking about starting for a couple of days. No clue if it would sustain me after an alien abduction.

Because of the fireplace debacle, the to-read pile is in boxes and the bottom is at the top so to speak, so I'm reading The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett in this gorgeous Persephone Books edition. I love the design of these - a plain cover and a gorgeous print inside. I'd take a wallpaper of this one.

#HolidayRead 2: This was wonderful and somewhat disarming. What starts as a conventional rags-to-riches marriage plot soon gives way into an incisive examination of marriage from the perspective of two women. A great edition from #PersephoneBooks too.

For everyone here who (like me) has listed Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess as one of their childhood faves....#PersephoneBooks has republished one of her adult novels and when I discovered it I #CouldntPutitDown #SomethingForSept

Title page and frontispiece illustration by CD Williams in the 1901 edition of Burnett's The Making of a Marchioness.

Before there was Lady Edith Crawley, there was the 1901 tale by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Making of a Marchioness.