They were best friends who never meant to fall in love - but for one of them it was already too late..

Maria Kendall is seemingly a dream client - beautiful mannered graceful and extremely well dowered. ..

No young lady can be more devoted to the teachings of the infamous bluestocking Mrs Waverley than Fe..

Modern notions were all well and good - but where did one find a man to share them? Though Frederica..

Miss Harriet Brown is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity - too much for her own good...

The Earl of Tredair has had his fill of balls routs and silly misses and he despairs of finding anyo..

Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley the patriarch who gambled away th..

As one of the two remaining unmarried Beverley sisters Belinda considers herself the last hope for M..

The haughty Beverley family is obsessed with regaining Mannerling the exquisite 17th-century mansion..

When one of her sisters is attacked by Harry Devers the lecherous son of Mannerling's present owner ..

Mannerling the splendid family estate gambled away by Sir Beverley remains the passion of his daught..

Ever since she can remember Meg has wanted to be a professional cook. But it's 1964 and in restauran..

Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but unfortunately has been raised in the most ..

Lovely wealthy and well bred Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of h..

1867: Nicola Douglas attends a lecture given by Miss Maria Rye the founder of the Female Middle Clas..