A School for Brides
A Story of Maidens, Mystery, and Matrimony
by Patrice Kindl
"Mark my words. If something drastic is not done, none of us shall ever marry. We are doomed to die old maids, objects of pity and scorn to all we meet. That shall be our fate, so long as we remain in Lesser Hoo!"
THE WINTHROP HOPKINS FEMALE Academy has one purpose: to train its students in the feminine arts, with an eye toward getting them married off. There are two problems, however. The academy is in a Yorkshire backwater, far from anywhere...and there are virtually no eligible men.
A School for Brides is the very funny saga of how the eight Winthrop Hopkins girls manage to get around those constraints, and how those of marriageable age snare the man (or future) of their dreams. Set in the same English town as Keeping the Castle, here's the kind of witty tribute to classic Regency novels that could only come from the pen of Patrice Kindl.
This description comes from the publisher. A School for Brides is the companion to Keeping the Castle.
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Boarding schools--Fiction., Schools--Fiction., Marriage--Fiction., Courtship--Fiction., Mystery and detective stories., England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction., Great Britain--History--1789-1820--Fiction., Social life and customs, Marriage, Boarding schools, Schools, Juvenile fiction, Courtship, History, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories| Edition | Availability |
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A School for Brides: A Story of Maidens, Mystery, and Matrimony
2015, Viking
Hardcover
in English
067078608X 9780670786084
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"In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife." This description comes from the publisher.
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