The Convenient Marriage (1934) (edit title/settings)

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• Horatia Winwood: The youngest, seventeen, of the Winwood sisters. "Her hair was dark, her eyes a profound grey, and her brows, nearly black and rather thick, were quite straight, and gave her serious, almost frowning, expression. irrepressible.
• Marcus, Earl of Rule: Lord Rule originally intends to marry Elizabeth Winwood, but accepts Horatia's offer of herself instead. Mr. Grisborne, Rule's secretary, "had not imagined, upon his first setting eyes on the Earl, that he could learn to like, or even to tolerate, this lazy, faintly mocking exquisite ... At the end of a month he had discovered that just as his lordship's laced and scented coats concealed an extremely powerful frame, so his weary eyelids drooped over eyes that could become as keep as the brain behind."
• Pelham, Marquis of Winwood: Horatia's brother, since "Pelham was some ten years the Earl's junior they moved in different circles and their acquaintanceship was slight. This circumstance did not weigh with the lively Viscount in the least; he greeted Rule with all the casual bonhomie he used towards his cronies and proceeded, by way of making him feel one of the family, to borrow money from him."
• Lord Robert Lethbridge: A satin-clad, bejeweled man who seems to take pleasure in being the one to inform Lady Massey and Crosby of Lord Rule's engagement. "No one knew the whole story, but everyone knew that that Lethbridge had been head over ears in love with <Lord Rule's sister, Louisa> and had proposed for her hand, and been rejected, not by the lady herself but by her brother."
• Lord Roland Pommeroy: Add a description of this character.
• Mr Crosby Drelincourt: Cousin and heir presumptive to Lord Rule. He is described as "A Macaroni, with an enormous ladder-toupet covered in blue hair-powdered, and a thin, unhealthily sallow countenance."
• Mr. Arnold Gisborne: Secretary to the Earl of Rule. "He was tolerably satisfied himself, employment in a noble house was a fair stepping-stone to a Public Career, but he would have preferred, since he was a serious young man, the service of one more nearly concerned with the Affairs of the Nation."
• Mr Hawkins
• Mrs. Theresa Maulfrey: A cousin of the Winwood's. nosey
• Lady Caroline Massey: Lady Massey is a widow who has managed to become "a Personage." "It was the taint of the City that would always exclude Lady Massey from the innermost circle of Fashion," not the rumored intimacies between her and Lord Rule.
• Mr Edward Heron: Mr. Heron hopes to gets his Captaincy and to win consent to marry Elizabeth. "the younger son of a country gentleman whose estates marched with Viscount Winwood's, he had known the Misses Winwood almost from the hour of his birth. He was of excellent if impoverished family, and had he been the possessor of a rather large fortune might have been deemed an eligible though not brilliant match for Elizabeth."
• Elizabeth Winwood: The eldest of the Winwood sisters. she has "a pair of melting blue eyes and a sweet, arched mouth that formed at the moment an O of mild surprise. A quantity of fair curls dressed without powder and threaded by a blue riband framed her faced and tumbled on to her shoulders in several ordered locks." Elizabeth wishes to marry Mr. Heron.
• Lady Louisa Quain: Lord Rule's sister. "She was an extremely handsome woman, with most speaking eyes, at once needle-sharp, and warmly smiling."
• Lady Winwood: Horatia's mother. "She had been induced to await <Lord Rule> in the withdrawing-room, fortified by smelling-salts, and a new polonaise with tobine stripes which had arrived from her dressmaker's just in time to avert a nervous collapse."
• Lady Amelia Pridham: "that grossly fat and free-spoken dame ... Lady Amelia, besides being of an extreme good nature, would go to any house where she could be sure of deep basset." (Basset is a card game).
• Miss Charlotte Winwood: The middle Winwood sister. "...she was a true Winwood, with the famous straight nose and the same blue eyes. Her curls, not quite so fair as her sisters, owed their existence to hot irons, her eyes were a shallower blue, and her colouring inclined towards the sallow; but she was allowed to be a very well-looking young lady." Does not want to get married- ever.

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Grosvenor Square: Address of Lord Rule's London home
• Half-moon Street
• South Street
• Ranelagh
• Maidenhead
• Meering
• London
• Paris
• Long Walk
• Hertford Street
• Pall Mall
• Richmond House
• Knightsbridge

First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Devil's Cub, and followed by Regency Buck.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Georgette Heyer (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Manuel João Gomes (Translator)
2. Jorge Silva - Translation review
3. Manuel Dias (Cover Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

There is nothing in Georgette Heyer's works that would be objectionable for readers of any age. Heyer does use a good bit of period slang and so readers must be willing and able to determine meaning from context.

Subjects edit see section history

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