The Secret Bluestocking

by Eileen Jackson

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451139119
• ISBN13: 9780451139115
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very good Regency

Backflap: On the surface, Miss Emma Waring seemed a most proper young lady. True, her hair was a rather unfashoinable reddish-gold, and at times a spark of deviltry marred her studiously innocent gaze. But all in all, Emma obeyed the proprieties as she followed her family's injunction to snare a husband in the London marriage mart. Unfortunately, Emma had a serious handicap in competing with the simpering young Misses. Emma not only had brains but used them to write books and verse that enjoyed a scandalous success when published under a false name. Clearly Emma could afford to let no one pierce her demure disguise and expose her as a blatant bluestocking. Especially not the celebrated and sought-after viscount Kinver, who alone had the power to lure Emma's inordinate intelligence to the surface and to stir her heart into folly..... The story is about Emma. Emma needs to make a good match so that her future and her sister's and her family's future will be secure. Emma indeed is cognizant of her position in society and what is expected from a young lady, however she has spunk and intelligence and believes in using it. She writes book installments for a london magazine and becomes quite populair. The romance between her and Viscount Kinver works. The immediate attraction is fought by both of them but after a while, they admit it and don't carry on the misunderstanding too long. I like it when other secondary characters interfere in the main relationship in a positive way and this also happens in this story. Overall a good book.