Carl’s Reviews > The Grand Sophy > Status Update

It's a comfortable read--a cozy romance. All the characters are clear, likable, despicable, irresponsible, solid. Nobody surprises anyone. We, as readers, are like the author. We know where this is going. We watch the characters come out of the darkness into the light, rubbing their eyes. "How foolish--why didn't they see all that earlier." Reader is easily smug.
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Rivenhall's little sister comes down with a fever that might be typhus. Sophy rises to the occasion, while Charles's betrothed won't come near the place. Charles finds out about Sophy's "saving" of Hubert and admires her. Nice scene in which he does insult her and she cries, then pretends that the tears were fake and called on demand. More at
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Spoiler coming up--Sophy gets the ring back from Goldhanger after PULLING A GUN OUT~too much in so many ways. I want to look up the date of this book to see just how recently such out-and-out anti-semiticism was considered acceptable.
Checked: 1950
Also discovered that the Goldhanger chapters are deleted from some newer editions of the book. Rewriting history and cleaning up Heyer's reputation. Awful!

A very odd, anti-semitic couple of chapters. Herbert (or is it Hubert?) the younger brother, gets himself in debt to Goldhanger and leaves a family heirloom with Goldhanger as collateral. Sophy goes to Goldhanger's business. Goldhanger is dirty, greedy, criminal, cunning, bony-fingered, semitic nose, etc. etc. Spoiler coming up--Sophy gets the ring back from Goldhanger after PULLING A GUN OUT~too much.