The Making of a Marchioness

This is a 1901 novel for adults about a young woman who married a Marchioness and the melodrama that follows. Part one, the original Marchioness, is in the Cinderella tradition, while part two, called The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, is an absorbing melodrama - a realistic commentary on late-Victorian marriage. Unjustly out of print for years, this neglected classic deserves its place alongside Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre .