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A Lady of Quality

By Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Length8h 49m

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"A Lady of Quality" is a romance by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1896 that became the second highest-selling novel in the U.S. that year. If the name rings a bell, it’s because Burnett also wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "A Little Princess", and "The Secret Garden". Today Burnett is remembered for her children’s books, but she also wrote a lot of romantic novels for adults, one of which is "A Lady of Quality". It is 1690, and another baby girl is born to Sir Jeoffrey Wildairs. Undismayed at the news of his wife’s death in childbirth, he packs the infant off to a remote wing of his stately home, where her two elder sisters live and has nothing whatsoever to do with them. Unlike her plain, obedient sisters, Clorinda Wildairs becomes beautiful and highly intelligent, masterful and arrogant. When she comes of age, she changes overnight into an elegant temptress and naturally every man she meets falls in love with her. The novel eventually becomes an unlikely historical romance with murder at its heart...

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GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance, Children's Literature
Length8 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 6, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter 1. The Twenty-Fourth Day Of November 1690
2Chapter 2. In Which Sir Jeoffry Encounters His Offspring
3Chapter 3. Wherein Sir Jeoffry’s Boon Companions Drink A Toast
4Chapter 4. Lord Twemlow’s Chaplain Visits His Patron’s Kinsman, And Mistress Clorinda Shines On Her Birthday Night
5Chapter 5. “Not I,” Said She. “There Thou Mayst Trust Me. I Would Not Be Found Out.”
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6Chapter 6. Relating How Mistress Anne Discovered A Miniature
7Chapter 7. ’Twas The Face Of Sir John Oxon The Moon Shone Upon
8Chapter 8. Two Meet In The Deserted Rose Garden, And The Old Earl Of Dunstanwolde Is Made A Happy Man
9Chapter 9. “I Give To Him The Thing He Craves With All His Soul—Myself”
10Chapter 10. “Yes—I Have Marked Him”
11Chapter 11. Wherein A Noble Life Comes To An End
12Chapter 12. Which Treats Of The Obsequies Of My Lord Of Dunstanwolde, Of His Lady’s Widowhood, And Of Her Return To Town
13Chapter 13. Wherein A Deadly War Begins
14Chapter 14. Containing The History Of The Breaking Of The Horse Devil, And Relates The Returning Of His Grace Of Osmonde From France
15Chapter 15. In Which Sir John Oxon Finds Again A Trophy He Had Lost
16Chapter 16. Dealing With That Which Was Done In The Panelled Parlour
17Chapter 17. Wherein His Grace Of Osmonde’s Courier Arrives From France
18Chapter 18. My Lady Dunstanwolde Sits Late Alone And Writes
19Chapter 19. A Piteous Story Is Told, And The Old Cellars Walled In
20Chapter 20. A Noble Marriage
21Chapter 21. An Heir Is Born
22Chapter 22. Mother Anne
23Chapter 23. “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”
24Chapter 24. The Doves Sate Upon The Window-Ledge And Lowly Cooed And Cooed

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