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Georgy Mansfield is a brilliant and principled bluestocking who resolves to avoid marriage at all costs. When Lord Maitland, recently back in society after years abroad, wins her admiration, she refuses his courtship. Determined to pursue her ideals, Georgy flees to become a village schoolteacher. In her absence, her mother devises a plan to substitute another young woman in Georgy’s place at a crucial house party, hoping to protect her daughter’s reputation while navigating the rigid expectations of Regency society.
First publish date: January 1988
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Elizabeth Mansfield
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