Still, it won’t be long before he’ll probably show up and demand Clarissa move home with him. As her guardian, John can almost do as he pleases and his encroaching mushroom of a wife sees money flowing into their household plus Clarissa acting as an unpaid drudge.īut the women have a plan and execute it with lightning speed, moving to Ashcroft and beginning repairs before John realizes it. But the place has been neglected for years and Clarissa’s half brother from her father’s first marriage, is making noises about Clarissa coming to live with him and his wife – after he’s sold Clarissa’s property. It’s then that her wastrel cousin dies and with no entail on the estate, Clarissa inherits. After the deaths of her parents, young eighteen year old Clarissa can’t hope to keep the school open. Though it does take a little help from some men in their lives, all four plus one more manage to find a permanent place and happiness by the end.Ĭlarissa, the daughter of a gentleman with progressive ideas about the education of women who married the daughter of a viscount, and her friends are facing a future without the school that has sustained them up until then. “Clarissa and the Poor Relations” is a frothy category length story of four women standing up for themselves in a world in which women had little actual power or control. This is the second book of yours I’ve read. Perhaps to adventure the ladies must add romance… Meeting the Earl of Grandiston and his companion (a devotee of the divine Oriana) on the road sets hilarious events in motion. However, their relatives may have other plans. Can sensible Miss Micklethwaite, aging romantic Miss Appleby and the beautiful Miss Oriana Petersham escape their fate? To keep the vivacious, impulsive Clarissa in check they must at least try.
They must put the estate to rights with little money and less experience. In Regency England Mrs Thorne’s School for Young Ladies is about to close due to the death of young Clarissa’s mother a year ago.This leaves eighteen-year-old Clarissa Thorne and her three school mistress friends no option but to return to the bosom of their families as despised ‘poor relations’ – at everyone’s beck and call for all their lives.īut Clarissa has just inherited Ashcroft, a large crumbling estate, and she offers her companions an escape – run away with her to a life of independence and adventure.
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