Which can be read here, as it is out of copyright, and also this website is brilliant and I am all in favor of celebrating women writers. Recommended by: Box of Books (whom I owe an apology) I am sorry for griping abut The Semi-Attached Couple and its unbitchy nature. Emily Eden is very amusing, and in many ways she is quite like Jane Austen but bitchier. So I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions even though Helen in The Semi-Attached Couple was very annoying. Now I have just finished The Semi-Detached House, and it was completely charming. Everyone in it…
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The Semi-Attached Couple, Emily Eden
Published 19 Jan 2008
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Gin Jenny
“Don’t you think Reginald Stuart very much out of spirits?” said Lady Portmore, when she was lingering over the breakfast-table, after the other ladies had withdrawn and Lord Teviot and Stuart had gone out shooting.”Yes, I think he is,” said Ernest, “rather out of spirits, and very much out of cash, I suspect; the old story of cause and effect.” Recommended by: Box of Books Now, if I recall correctly (as of course I unfailingly do), the recommending book blog said that Emily Eden was a lot like Jane Austen but bitchier, and I am not particularly finding that. I…
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