False Colours (1963) (edit title/settings)

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• Evelyn Fancot: The elder of the twins.
• the Hon. Christopher "Kit" Fancot: What one twin will do for his twin.
• Amabel Fancot, Lady Denville: Kit & Evelyn's mother, previously Lady Amabel Cliffe daughter of the Earl of Baverstock. "although she was an accredited Beauty dispassionate persons were agreed that her loveliness lay not so much in any perfection of countenance as in her vivacious charm." She has accumulated a significant amount of debt, though she does not know how much exactly. "Well, dearest, how can one remember everything one has borrowed for years and years?"
• Cressida "Cressy" Stavely: The young woman to whom Evelyn has proposed. "Not a beauty, but a goodlooking girl, gray-eyeeed and borwn-haired, and iwth a shapely figure."
• Bonamy Ripple: "This elderly and extremely wealthy dandy had run tame about <the Denville> home, regarded by <Kit> and Evelyn as a fit subject for ridicule, and by their father with indifference. He had been one of Lady Denville's many suitors, and when she had married Lord Denville he had become her most faithful cicisbeo."
• the Dowager Stavely: AKA "OLD Lady Stavely." She who must approve of the engagement. "the Dowager was small, and spare, with a straight nose and a flat bosom. She had a deceptive air of fragility."
• Lady Albinia Stavely: Lord Stavely's new wife, not much older than Cressida. "Lady Stavely was overacting the part of Society hostess; she had been for too long the daughter who had failed to catch a husband to slip easily into her new position."
• Cosmo Cliffe: Lady Denville's brother.
• Emma Cliffe: wife of Cosmo Cliff. "A flaccid woman, with weak blue eyes, and a sickly complexion, responded, with an indeterminate smile, and in a curiously flat voice, that she was pretty well, except for a slight headache."
• Henry Fancout, Lord Brumby: Evelyn and Kit's uncle. Kit entered the diplomatic service under Henry's patronage. He also has control over the estate until Evelyn turns thirty.
• Ambrose Cliffe: Son of Cosmo Cliffe
• Mrs Norton: Housekeeper at Ravenhurst
• Fimber: Evelyn & sometimes Kit's valet
• Mr Lucton: an acquaintance of Evelyn's
• Mr Horning: A poet currently enamoured of Lady Denville
• Mr Dawlish: Cook at Ravenhurst
• Lord Stewart: newly-appointed ambassador ... whom the irreverent at the congress dubbed Lord Pumpernickel.
• General Lord Cathcart: Ambassador to the Tsar and also the British Military Commissioner attached to is armies. Kit joined General Lord Cathcart's staff in 1813. Kit became good friends with the General's son, George Cathcart.
• Adlestrop: Fancot family's man of business.
• Mr. Brembridge: Kit's uncle who has died and left him "an easy competence."
• Lord Silverdale: Lord Silverdale holds a brooch which Lady Denville lost to him gambling.
• Clara Denville: One of Cressy's aunts
• Lord Stavely: Cressy's father
• Mr. Charles Stavely: Lord Stavely's brother
• Lady Augusta Ebchester: One of Lord Stavely's sisters.
• Challow: Denville's head groom

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Mount Street
• Vienna
• Hill Street: Location of the Denville London home.
• Worthing
• Tunbridge Wells
• Ravenhurst: Denville country estate.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Nonesuch, and followed by Frederica.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Georgette Heyer (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Georgette Heyer books contain no material inappropriate for readers of any age. Heyer does use a good deal of period slang, and so readers should have the ability and patience to determine meaning from context.

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary