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Marriage
Susan Ferrier
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Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen year old daughter of the Earl of Cortland, is betrothed by her father to a wealthy old Duke who can give her every luxury. She instead runs away and marries her very handsome but penniless lover. Very soon, they are forced to travel to Scotland to live with his quirky family in a rundown “castle” in the barren wilderness. Can this marriage survive?
Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen year old daughter of the Earl of Cortland, is betrothed by her father to a wealthy old Duke who can give her every luxury. She instead runs away and marries her very handsome but penniless lover. Very soon, they are forced to travel to Scotland to live with his quirky family in a rundown “castle” in the barren wilderness. Can this marriage survive?
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"I rested very ill; my bed was very uncomfortable; and Sir Sampson's as sick as a cat—humph!"
Three disconsolate "Bless me's!" here burst forth.
"Perhaps your bed was too hard?" said Miss Grizzy.
"Or too soft?" suggested Miss Jacky.
"Or too hot?" added Miss Nicky.
"It was neither too hard, nor too soft, nor too hot, nor too cold," thundered the Lady, as she seated herself at the table; "but it was all of them."
"I declare, that's most distressing," said Miss Grizzy, in a tone of sorrowful amazement. "Was your head high enough, dear Lady Maclaughlan?"
"Perhaps it was too high," said Miss Ja. . . Read More
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As far as a romance goes, this one is spot on. The persuasion of the cast of characters shows plainly as if they were wearing the traditional black and white of melodramas. Of course virtue is assigned to those labeled as "good" and vice to those labeled as "bad." The naive and good young woman is t
Susan Ferrier was a Scottish author, somewhat contemporary to Jane Austen (although she lived longer and published her novels a bit later). She is sometimes called "Scotland's Jane Austen," so of course I was curious to check out Marriage, her most well-known work, as my first choice of book during
I found this an interesting read, and quite an enjoyable and funny one, though the characterisation was a little flat throughout, and the pacing a little odd. I felt about this as I often feel about novels by contemporaries of Jane Austen . . . It's just less good than Jane Austen!
This is the second time I've read Marriage by Susan Ferrier. I was worried that it wouldn't live up to my memory of it, but it definitely did. As I read I wondered why this novel hasn't remained popular with readers whereas Austen's novels have. I think it comes down to two points; the first is the
Susan Ferrier’s Marriage (1818) was republished a few years ago with a sales pitch touting Ferrier as the “Scottish Jane Austen.” I’m not sure that comparison entirely works in Ferrier’s favour. Anyone approaching the novel expecting an echo of Austen’s poised irony and rigorous stylistic minimalism
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