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Duchess in Disguise
To win her husband's love she masqueraded as a lady he did no know! The Duke of Westhampton had a wife in the country - and a mistress in town. This suited the Duke of Westhampton, but his young wife, whom he'd wed and tuckedaway on his estate with scarcely a second glance was not pleased. So, being as audacious as she was innocent, she undertook to win his attention, toch...more
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Published
June 1st 1979
by Warner Books (Caroline Courtney Romance #1)
(first published March 1979)
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I have such happy memories of reading Caroline Courtney's books -- my sister Heather was a regency romance junkie and for some reason, I bypassed her Georgette Heyers and scooped up her Caroline Courtneys. She had 8. I read them behind closed doors, not because my parents would mind my reading them, but because I was supposed to be doing homework. It was my year of "failing" (meaning I was no longer getting all As) and my parents had taken away my phone, and then my television-watching privilege...more
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Clorinda. That's the name of the main character. Clorinda. I bet that was a popular name around the regency period...:D
The plot was actually pretty fun with the disguise and forced marriage and all. I just never got over the fact that Clorinda (seriously) is only 17 and described as still having the body of a child. That just makes the whole marriage and romance a little too creepy for my taste.
The plot was actually pretty fun with the disguise and forced marriage and all. I just never got over the fact that Clorinda (seriously) is only 17 and described as still having the body of a child. That just makes the whole marriage and romance a little too creepy for my taste.
It was okay. I really like the time period. The romance part didn't have any depth at all. I didn't like that the main character kept being described at not being completely physically mature, and the fact the the Duke was so much older, didn't do anything for me. It did keep my attention, but I still found it lacking. I might give another one of her books a chance down the road. I hope that I like it better than I liked this one.
cute book. I really liked how she took it into her own hands to do something abt her situation. I also appreciated how fast paced it was. this did sacrifice details and depth of the story but if you are looking for a quick good read, this is it!
Entertaining but so very bad. She’s an irritating adolescent and he’s a shadow of a dunce. I’ve overgrown the virginal heroines and their innocence, even if they do deliciously stupid things as pretend to be other people to seduce their husbands.
This is one of my all-time favorite romance books! I absolutely loved the will power of the heroine in this book and I loved the way she took her life in her own hands and decided to make her husband fall in love with her. What a woman!
Clorinda marries to save her sister who is in love with another. She plots to gain her husband's love.
1.5 stars really. The premise was a good one, the execution just plain daft.
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1.5 stars. I really wanted to like this book, but I can't. There were some great ideas buried in the book, but the author didn't develop them and instead described other unimportant things. This could be a good romance if only....
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Her other names: Penny Jordan, Annie Groves, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on 24 November 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
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Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on 24 November 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen rea...more
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