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Honoria
Also not available in epub--doggone it.
My First publication--about a hundred years ago, or possibly only fifteen. It's a long time either way, but it still holds up to reading if you like fluff and silliness.
For those of you who follow my mother Delinda McCann, I just want you to know that I was publishing stuff WAY before she started, so she's the one copying ME...wait, what was I saying? Oh right, as you may know, she has been working for decades with the social effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, so I was, at the time, immersed in anecdotes and personal experience with children affected with FAS.
Consequently, our heroine Honoria Spencer has grown up surrounded by her mother's orphan charity, and most of the orphans suffer from Fetal Alcohol Effects caused by the prevalence of gin at the time. Honoria, while generous and good-natured, does frequently express her unflattering opinion of orphans--especially the Spencers' henwitted housemaid Eliza. All of which got on the nerves of one reviewer who was...ah-hum...an orphan herself and probably did not have FAS.
Honoria:
On the very day her youngest child, learned to
toddle without assistance, Mrs. Spencer announced her intention to
establish a hospital for the orphaned children of Lesser Chipping and
surrounding villages. Meanwhile, the duties of managing the vicarage and
the charity work for the parish have fallen to her oldest daughter
Honoria, and Honoria has had enough. The trouble is, a gently bred girl
cannot simply leave home and take up a career. The solution, therefore,
is marriage, but to whom? Her only suitor is Mr. Whitham, and she cannot
possibly marry Mr. Whitham, a stuffy landholder with broad shoulders
and no brains to speak of.
Hope dawns in the person of Mr. Carstairs, a gentleman of questionable background, and peerless wealth and charm. Before she knows it, Honoria is head over heels, if not in love...then at least in competition with her arch-rival Louisa Allenby who has openly set her cap for the romantic stranger. Honoria might be overmatched, but she finds a mentor in Mr. Carstairs' friend and business manager Mr. Bowes. Bowes has been charged with getting Mr. Carstairs suitably married and settled down, and he has selected Honoria as the perfect wife … for Carstairs
Hope dawns in the person of Mr. Carstairs, a gentleman of questionable background, and peerless wealth and charm. Before she knows it, Honoria is head over heels, if not in love...then at least in competition with her arch-rival Louisa Allenby who has openly set her cap for the romantic stranger. Honoria might be overmatched, but she finds a mentor in Mr. Carstairs' friend and business manager Mr. Bowes. Bowes has been charged with getting Mr. Carstairs suitably married and settled down, and he has selected Honoria as the perfect wife … for Carstairs
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