{"id":40,"date":"2008-03-27T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-03-27T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T21:38:00","slug":"lady-of-quality-georgette-heyer-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2008\/03\/lady-of-quality-georgette-heyer-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady of Quality &#8211; Georgette Heyer, 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other in the pair of Heyer&#8217;s Regency romances which I like enough to have kept and re-read (along with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/weblog\/2008\/03\/grand-sophy-georgette-heyer-1950.html\">The Grand Sophy<\/a><\/em>). Annis Wychwood, practically &#8220;on the shelf&#8221; at twenty-nine, takes in and gives countenance to impetuous young Lucilla Carleton, who &#8216;s run away from home to avoid being married off to Ninian Elmore. Her companion in this escapade? Ninian himself, who doesn&#8217;t want to marry her but is being guilted into it by his parents. The inevitable sparks between Annis and Lucilla&#8217;s guardian naturally kindle into love, but the many amusing moments come from primarily from Lucilla, Ninian, and Annis&#8217; foolish suitor Lord Beckenham. The plot climax arises when Annis nurses her little niece through influenza and then catches it herself. Heyer&#8217;s heroines may be independent, rebellious, and witty, but of course they reveal themselves as Angels at the Sickbed when needed&#8211;I guess as part of their competence and clear-headedness in contrast to the other flighty and muddle-headed females (very Austenish), but it&#8217;s a bit tarsome, as Georgie Pillson from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/weblog\/2008\/03\/mapp-and-lucia-books-ef-benson.html\">Lucia books<\/a> would say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other in the pair of Heyer&#8217;s Regency romances which I like enough to have kept and re-read (along with The Grand Sophy). Annis Wychwood, practically &#8220;on the shelf&#8221; at twenty-nine, takes in and gives countenance to impetuous young Lucilla Carleton, who &#8216;s run away from home to avoid being married off to Ninian Elmore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}