Ergebnis für "Lady Susan" in Historische Liebesromane

Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes... for a fee.

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

Three bestselling authors. Two delightful novels. One terrific collection! From Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton series, now streaming on Netflix—writing along with close friends and popular authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway—comes THE LADIES MOST… a duo of cleverly crafted...

Auch am Ende ihrer dritten Ballsaison hat Sophia Gifford immer noch nicht den Mann gefunden, den sie aus vollem Herzen liebt. Um nicht als alte Junfger zu enden, nimmt sie den Heiratsantrag eines Verehrers an. Doch dann trifft sie plötzlich den charmanten Hugh Quinton wieder, den sie seit fast zehn Jahren nicht mehr gesehen hat. Ihre Gefühle für ihn sind aber immer noch so stark wie damals. Doch er wird durch seine zweifelhaften Geschäfte von der Londoner Gesellschaft, einschließlich ihrer Eltern, verachtet. Sophie sollte ihn nicht einmal als Ehemann in Betracht ziehen.

Drei Dinge braucht eine Lady, um eine gute Partie zu machen: eine noble Herkunft, eine hohe Mitgift und gutes Aussehen. Emma Morten besitzt nichts davon. Emma Morten, Tochter eines einfachen Landedelmanns, hat nur eine Möglichkeit, dem Dasein als Gesellschafterin ihrer schrecklichen Großtante zu entgehen: Sie muss heiraten. Ihre Chancen dafür stehen allerdings denkbar schlecht, denn ihr Vermögen ist ebenso gering wie ihr Stand und ihre Schönheit.

Figura insoslayable de la literatura inglesa, Jane Austen plasma en este libro una aguda novela epistolar. La obra, más corta y menos conocida de sus novelas clásicas (Mansfield Park, Orgullo y prejuicio) pone como nunca en escena dos temas recurrentes en Austen: el matrimonio por conveniencia y los vínculos de una familia de la burguesía rural.

The next fabulous romance by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James. Having made a fortune, Thorn Dautry, the powerful bastard son of a duke, decides that he needs a wife. But to marry a lady, Thorn must acquire a gleaming, civilized façade, the specialty of Lady Xenobia India...

From Julia Quinn, the author of Bridgerton—along with close friends and bestselling authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway—comes a thrilling tale of a snow-bound party in a Scottish castle. And You’re Invited! When Laird Taran Ferguson’s nephews refuse to find brides, he takes matters...

Hermosa, coqueta y viuda desde hace poco, lady Susan Vernon desea volver a casarse, y que el suyo sea un matrimonio ventajoso. Al mismo tiempo, intenta empujar a su hija a una unión deprimente. En palabras de Natalie Jenner, autora de La Sociedad Jane Austen, lady Susan es «uno de los personajes más engañosos y manipuladores» de todos los creados por Jane Austen.

"Lady Susan" es una novela de intrigas y enredos donde la trama se va develando a raíz del intercambio de cartas entre los diferentes personajes. La historia gira en torno a lady Susan Vernon, una hermosa e inteligente mujer, pero también manipuladora y egoísta. Sus planes no sólo incluyen un nuevo casamiento ventajoso para ella misma; sino que también pretende casar a su hija de dieciséis años con el adinerado Sir James, hombre al que la joven detesta.

Lady Juliana Kinthorpe is no longer the fanciful young woman who embraced the notions of romance and chivalry nurtured at Queen Eleanor's Court of Love. Wed to a desperately bitter man, she is forced to steal from the knight who betrayed her husband during the Holy Crusade. But even to save her sister, can she do the unthinkable? That which will cost her dignity, her heart, and perhaps her soul?

Lady Susan was first published decades after Austen's death. Written in letters, the selfish but entertaining Lady Susan and each of her correspondents come vividly to life, as do the family members of the fragment, The Watsons. This latter work was begun in 1875, but Austen never returned to it after her father's death.

Esta novela epistolar, escrita probablemente en 1794, narra los planes de la protagonista, la recientemente viuda lady Susan, para encontrar un nuevo marido, a la vez que intenta casar a su hija de dieciséis años. Austen se sirve de este género para construir una obra en donde las distintas cartas se engarzan como piezas de un rompecabezas hasta completar ante los ojos del lector una historia de pequeñas intrigas.

In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Jane Austen's novella, Lady Susan, and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found--and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England. Lady Vernon and...

Lady Philippa Shaw had it all - a husband who was madly in love with her, a sweet baby daughter, and a house in the most exclusive square in London - until a shocking discovery revealed that her happy life was a lie. After her husband's death, his past crimes return to haunt her, bringing danger, devastation, and the one man she’s spent the past few years despising.

Baden-Baden, 1830: Heiratswillige Junggesellen recken die Köpfe nach der hübschen Elise, deren Herz sie erobern wollen. Doch ihre Auserwählte ist abgelenkt von dem leidenschaftlichen Liebesbrief einer geheimnisvollen Verfasserin, den sie in einem Buch gefunden hat. Ist ein Kuss wirklich so überwältigend wie beschrieben? Völlig vernarrt in den Fund, aber ahnungslos in Liebesdingen, greift Elise selbst zur Feder. Junggeselle Philipp hilft ihr nur zu gern bei ihren Recherchen zur körperlichen Anziehungskraft, die natürlich ausschließlich theoretischer Natur sind. Bis ein Kuss alles verändert.

Lady Susan drops her daughter Frederica off at school, annoyed that she refuses to marry nobleman Sir James Martin. She arrives at Churchill, her brother-in-law's house, determined to erase her reputation as a heartless coquette and win them over. But her sister-in-law Catherine is unconvinced.

Desperate to save his ailing niece, Highland warrior Diarmid Campbell seeks out the young woman he once saw perform a healing miracle on a battlefield. But when he finds her - now a trained physician - she denies her gift. Undeterred, Diarmid carries the stubborn beauty off to his Highland stronghold. Yet, as the captive lady reveals her deepest secret - and the warrior opens his closed heart - a perilous enemy emerges to threaten them. Soon, they must rely on each other - and a miracle only love can bring....

Love is a choice you make every day. Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband, Brad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him, or the course of events...

The book is the first part of an expansion of the story Lady Susan by Jane Austen. This edition relays events leading up to Lady Susan Vernon's first letter. She rides out with Mainwaring, her lover, to see the estate of Sir James Martin, and decides to pursue this gentleman on behalf of her daughter Frederica as an eligible match for her.