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Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary Jane Austen Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal Why then has she been lost to history? On the 200th anniversary of this sharply observed comic novel it is time to rediscover her brilliance'What have you to do with a heart? What has anybody to do with a heart when their establishment in life is at stake? Keep your heart for your romances child and don't bring such nonsense into real life - heart indeed!'Understanding that the purpose of marriage is to further her family Lady Juliana nevertheless rejects the ageing and unattractive - though appropriately wealthy - suitor of her father's choice She elopes instead with a handsome penniless soldier and goes to Scotland to live at Glenfarn Castle his paternal home But Lady
Juliana finds life in the Scottish highlands dreary and bleak hastily repenting of following her heartAfter giving birth to twin daughters Lady Juliana leaves Mary to the care of her sister-in-law while she returns to England with Adelaide Sixteen years later Mary is thoughtful wise and kind in comparison to her foolish mother and vain sister Following two generations of women Marriage first published in 1818 is a shrewdly observant and humorous novel by one of Scotland's greatest writers
Juliana finds life in the Scottish highlands dreary and bleak hastily repenting of following her heartAfter giving birth to twin daughters Lady Juliana leaves Mary to the care of her sister-in-law while she returns to England with Adelaide Sixteen years later Mary is thoughtful wise and kind in comparison to her foolish mother and vain sister Following two generations of women Marriage first published in 1818 is a shrewdly observant and humorous novel by one of Scotland's greatest writers
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