Engagement

by Eloise R. Weld

Follows the lives, loves and scandals surrounding a fox-hunting family in rural Pennsylvania at the beginning of the last century.

306 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Stacey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah, the 70s--when smutty period novels had cigarette ads stitched in their centers and loads of cynicism about marriage. To quote our heroine's mother, "There are three kinds of men--worthy bores, drunken fools, or the fascinating lovers who are always unfaithful." Another highlight of this book was its Philadelphia setting, in a time when 2nd and Spruce was such a shady neighborhood the madam was thinking of relocating the whorehouse.

[Phair · Rating 1 out of 5]

Picked this up to decide whether it should be discarded from the library and because of the sidesaddle illustration on the cover. While there was a little bit of pre WWI era foxhunting, the novel was pretty boring and because of that and the fact that it had not circulated in eons it went bye-bye from the collection