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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 2850 The Making of a Marchioness, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (read 10 Mar 1996) This is an excellent and entrancing book. Burnett is a kind of poor man's Henry James. I found it exquisitely written, and the plot is not even predictable, except as to the happy ending--which was the ending devoutly desired by me. This book is described as Burnett's best. It is indeed very good. This is one of a series of 19th century obscure or neglected novels, published as "The Doughty Library." Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1901 fairy-tale for adults, with a real villain. By the author of 'The Secret Garden' and 'A Little Princess'. 0.082 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
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I was unable to read far into Part 2 because aspects of the author's style which had previously irritated became too maddening to overcome. I don't know how many times we were reminded that Emily was not intelligent (but not stupid, mind!), that she was childlike/ish, or that Lady Maria was selfish, or that Walderhurst lacked self-awareness. Perhaps it wasn't actually that many, but I felt bombarded by the authorial voice TELLING me things about the characters which I really would prefer to have been shown. The result was that I found it very difficult to care about the characters at all and thus died my interest in reading further. (