![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Viscount storms off in a fit of pique, vowing to marry the first female he meets. A lively quarrel then follows with his obnoxious widowed mother and her brother, who wish to retain control of his father's fortune themselves. Isabella rejects him unhesitatingly, citing his dissipated lifestyle. As the lady with whom he currently fancies himself in love, the beautiful Isabella Milborne, is also an heiress, he proposes. The wild young Viscount Sheringham is fast running through his considerable income through gambling and other extravagant pursuits and he cannot as yet touch the principal, unless he marries. Other examples include The Convenient Marriage and April Lady. įriday's Child is one of several Heyer romances where the hero and heroine are married early in the novel, and the plot follows their path to mutual love and understanding. Heyer retained only a single fan letter, which was from a Romanian political prisoner who kept herself and her fellow prisoners sane for twelve years by telling and retelling the plot of Friday's Child. It is generally considered one of Miss Heyer's best Regency romances, and was reportedly the favourite of the author herself. Friday's Child is a novel written by Georgette Heyer in 1944. ![]()
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