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The Making of a Marchioness

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
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The Making of a Marchioness is Frances Hodgson Burnett’s delightful take on the Cinderella story. Born into an aristocratic family, Emily Fox-Seton is left penniless and must fend for herself after the death of her parents. Then one summer, everything changes. This audio edition is read by Lucy Scott.

Emily rents a room in a boarding house in London where she makes a modest living as an assistant to aristocratic ladies. One summer, Lady Maria Bayne asks Emily to her country estate and it’s there that Emily receives a very surprising offer of marriage from a wealthy widower in need of a wife. But Emily’s new life is not without its own obstacles and challenges.

The Making of a Marchioness is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. First published in 1901, this edition includes a preface by Isabel Raphael and an afterword by Gretchen Gerzina.

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Beautifully written Cinderella story with a heart, narrated with skill. Turn of the 20 th century mileu

An absolute gem!

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A strange tale, which begins as a light, sweet, rags to riches fable and ends in a kind of gothic stew. Emily starts out as a likeable heroine but by the second half of the tale she’s become rather annoyingly hamstrung by her own ‘goodness’ and it’s all a bit tormented and beyond belief. Beautifully read though.

A tale of two halves

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