Emily Brand

Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship (eBook, PDF)

The Secrets of Seduction from Jane Austen's Most Eligible Bachelor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fitzwilliam Darcy's universally acknowledged primer for single men in possession of a good fortune, should they be in want of a wife.

Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship is no ordinary Regency courtship manual, composed as it is by a Fitzwilliam Darcy as yet unmellowed by contact with Elizabeth Bennet. Full of entirely justified pride and meticulously cultivated prejudice, Jane Austen's most famous (and most fancied) hero here reveals the secrets of his success with the opposite sex, offering hints to both ladies and gentlemen on the rules of courtship, including making oneself agreeable, identifying an appropriate partner and how to escape the unwanted attentions of rogues and fortune-hunters.

*Also includes: beauty tips from Caroline Bingley, thoughts on the improper courtship techniques of Messrs Wickham and Collins, reflections on spinsterhood by Miss Emma Woodhouse, and Darcy's advice to his many illustrious correspondents including Lord Byron, the Duke of Wellington and Mr Willoughby of Combe Magna.*

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908402820
• Artikelnr.: 44868196

Autorenporträt

Emily Brand is a writer and historian with a special interest in the long eighteenth century, especially English social history and romantic relationships c.1660-1837. She has lectured on eighteenth-century seduction and women's lives at the V&A, the National Maritime Museum and the BBC History festival among others.

Her most recent book The Fall of the House of Byron (John Murray, 2020) was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, a Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Elma Dangerfield Prize.

Emily's tongue-in-cheek Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship was a Publishers Weekly 'Pick of the Week' and featured in Stylist Magazine's '30 Books Every Woman Should Read'