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REVIEW of Frances Sets the Fashion (Lord Dere’s Dependents #4) by Christina Dudley

Frances Barstow has been biding her time, increasing her social cachet with Mrs. Markham Dere by waiting upon the tyrannical lady’s every whim. And now, at the age of twenty, it is Frances’s time to shine. Mrs. Dere is determined to bring Frances “out” at the same time as her erstwhile rival’s daughter and make…

March 22, 2026
REVIEW of The Bestowed Bride (Lord Dere’s Dependents #3) by Christina Dudley

The premise of this book is a fun one: Mrs. Sebastian Barstow’s husband was wounded in a naval battle and subsequently died, but in his final letter, Sebastian asked his best friend to take care of his widow…and marry her if the opportunity presents itself….

July 25, 2025
REVIEW of Gwendolyn Grows Up by GL Robinson

Poor Gwendolyn–cast adrift after the death of her parents without any fortune or skills to earn her living. A kind lady takes her in as a governess, but after two years the lord of the house discovers that his children have learned nothing in Gwendolyn’s care. The sweet, endearing girl is packed off to London…

June 16, 2025
REVIEW of Mrs. Merritt’s Remorse (Lord Dere’s Dependents #2 by Christina Dudley

The Barstow family returns in the second installment of Lord Dere’s Dependents. Now two years into the future, this book features the second daughter Jane, repentant widow of Roger Merritt, who keeps to the family cottage in guilt and shame for her foolish past. But when a new curate and his sister arrive in the…

March 8, 2025
REVIEW of A Winter’s Romance: A Regency Anthology

I love a good anthology with stories the perfect length to read at bedtime before falling asleep. This collection contains stories by several of my favorite authors. The most appealing ones in the collection–to me, at least–ended up being “Epiphany Day” by Christina Dudley and “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” by GL Robinson….

January 15, 2025
REVIEW of By His Grace and Favor (Lord Dere’s Dependents #1) by Christina Dudley

When the motley crew of Barstows end up in the same coach as the handsome tutor, a romance of hugely humorous proportions begins….

November 29, 2024
REVIEW of A Capital Arrangement (The Ellsworth Assortment #6) by Christina Dudley

Beatrice is the youngest of the Ellsworth Assortment, and her family fears she will never find love. They send her to the seaside with Tyrone and Aggie, and in a frightening bathing machine accident, she almost drowns until she is pulled from the briny waves by engineer John Clayton….

June 16, 2024
REVIEW of A Scholarly Pursuit (The Ellsworth Assortment #4) by Christina Dudley

Tyrone Ellsworth is too lazy to bestir himself in courtship–or at least, that’s what his sister’s bosom friend Agatha Weeks thinks about him. Little does she know that Tyrone has been VERY BUSY ghostwriting letters for socially awkward bachelors to present to their ladyloves….

September 17, 2023
REVIEW of The Belle of Winchester (The Ellsworth Assortment #2) by Christina Dudley

Lily Ellsworth loves being surrounded my suitors. Tall, short, plain, handsome–it gives her a thrill to be the center of masculine attention. Of course, she knows she will eventually have to choose one of them and settle down to the humdrum existence of married life, and when that time comes, she’s resolved to accept Mr.…

December 30, 2022
SERIES Recommendations from 2022

There is something so satisfying about finishing a great book and knowing that you have another one, the next in series, waiting for you….

December 23, 2022

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