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Marriage (Paperback)
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Marriage (Paperback)
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary,
Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal. Why, then has
she been lost to history? On the 200th anniversary of this sharply
observed, comic novel, it is time to rediscover her brilliance.
'What have you to do with a heart? What has anybody to do with a
heart when their establishment in life is at stake? Keep your heart
for your romances, child, and don't bring such nonsense into real
life - heart, indeed!' Understanding that the purpose of marriage
is to further her family, Lady Juliana nevertheless rejects the
ageing and unattractive - though appropriately wealthy - suitor of
her father's choice. She elopes, instead, with a handsome,
penniless soldier and goes to Scotland to live at Glenfarn Castle,
his paternal home. But Lady Juliana finds life in the Scottish
highlands dreary and bleak, hastily repenting of following her
heart. After giving birth to twin daughters, Lady Juliana leaves
Mary to the care of her sister-in-law, while she returns to England
with Adelaide. Sixteen years later, Mary is thoughtful, wise and
kind, in comparison to her foolish mother and vain sister.
Following two generations of women, Marriage, first published in
1818, is a shrewdly observant and humorous novel by one of
Scotland's greatest writers.
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