In Frances Hodgson Burnett's compelling historical novel A Lady of Quality, a girl named Clorinda is born and raised in a horrible environment. Motherless, resented, and brought up as a boy by her drunken lout of a father, the odds are stacked...
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In Frances Hodgson Burnett's compelling historical novel A Lady of Quality, a girl named Clorinda is born and raised in a horrible environment. Motherless, resented, and brought up as a boy by her drunken lout of a father, the odds are stacked against her. Can Clorinda rise above the circumstances of her birth and childhood and find true happiness?
Title; Contents; A Lady of Quality; Chapter I - The Twenty-Fourth Day of November 1690; Chapter II - In Which Sir Jeoffry Encounters His Offspring; Chapter III - Wherein Sir Jeoffry's Boon Companions Drink a Toast; Chapter IV - Lord Twemlow's Chaplain Visits His Patron's Kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda Shines on Her Birthday Night; Chapter V - ""Not I,"" Said She ""there Thou Mayst Trust Me I Would Not Be Found Out""; Chapter VI - Relating How Mistress Anne Discovered a Miniature; Chapter VII - 'Twas the Face of Sir John Oxon the Moon Shone Upon
Chapter VIII - Two Meet in the Deserted Rose Garden, and the Old Earl of Dunstanwolde is Made a Happy ManChapter IX - ""I Give to Him the Thing He Craves with All His Soul-Myself""; Chapter X - ""Yes-I Have Marked Him""; Chapter XI - Wherein a Noble Life Comes to an End; Chapter XII - Which Treats of the Obsequies of My Lord of Dunstanwolde, of His Lady's Widowhood, and of Her Return to Town; Chapter XIII - Wherein a Deadly War Begins; Chapter XIV - Containing the History of the Breaking of the Horse Devil, and Relates the Returning of His Grace of Osmonde from France
Chapter XV - In Which Sir John Oxon Finds Again a Trophy He Had LostChapter XVI - Dealing with that Which was Done in the Panelled Parlour; Chapter XVII - Wherein His Grace of Osmonde's Courier Arrives from France; Chapter XVIII - My Lady Dunstanwolde Sits Late Alone and Writes; Chapter XIX - A Piteous Story is Told, and the Old Cellars Walled In; Chapter XX - A Noble Marriage; Chapter XXI - An Heir is Born; Chapter XXII - Mother Anne; Chapter XXIII - ""In One Who Will Do Justice, and Demands that it Shall Be Done to Each Thing He Has Made, by Each Who Bears His Image""
Chapter XXIV - The Doves Sate Upon the Window-Ledge and Lowly Cooed and Cooed
