{"product_id":"the-making-of-a-marchioness","title":"The Making of a Marchioness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/Persephone.png?v=1775729186\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of a Marchioness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1901) was one of Nancy Mitford's favourite books; in\u003cem\u003e The Pursuit of Love, \u003c\/em\u003eLinda puts a copy of it in the window \u003cspan\u003eof the Red bookshop, where she works, in place of\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003eKarl Marx: the Formative Years. \u003c\/em\u003eToday, a number of US college courses teach it alongside \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e. It is indeed a remarkably good read from this most beloved author of \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLittle Lord Fauntleroy\u003c\/em\u003e and Persephone favourite \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-shuttle?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=the+shuttle\u0026amp;_ss=e\u0026amp;_v=1.0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Shuttle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. Like Miss Pettigrew in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/miss-pettigrew-lives-for-a-day-1?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=miss+pettigrew\u0026amp;_ss=e\u0026amp;_v=1.0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, the heroine of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Making of a Marchioness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 'is a sort of Cinderella,' wrote Frances Hodgson Burnett to her publisher, 'a solid, kind, unselfish creature who arrives at a good fortune almost comic because it is in a sense so incongruous.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Fox-Seton never imagines her life will change: she is quite content living in a bedsitting room in Mortimer Street in Marylebone and supporting herself. \"It is her fate to be a woman who is perfectly well born, and who is as penniless as a charwoman, and works like one. She is at the beck and call of any one who will give her an odd job to earn a meal with. That is one of the new ways women have found of making a living.\" She is contrasted with a society beauty, Lady Agatha Slade, who is also poor but can do nothing but wait for a husband. \"She has had the advertising of the illustrated papers this season, and she has gone well. But she has not had any special offer, and I know she and her mother are a little frightened.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe endpaper fabric is a 1901 figured cotton called 'Tulips', which is simple, cheerful and graceful; Emily might have picked tulips at Mallowe Court.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frances Hodgson Burnett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960222478383,"sku":"9781903155141","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/marchioness.png?v=1775722572","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-making-of-a-marchioness","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}