Jennie About To Be

Description for JENNIE ABOUT TO BE by Elisabeth Ogilvie: Jennie Hawthorne, orphaned at twenty-one, is carried off after her father's death by her mother's sister. She would henceforth live the life of the "upstairs" classes in the home of her aunt and uncle in London's Brunswick Square. "we'll make you a good marriage," her Aunt Higham promised. Jennie, born and brought up surrounded by moors and the North Sea in Northumberland, a free spirit, educated in an era when girls seldom learned anything but needlework and the harpsichord, pined during her first winter in London; for her dead father, for his wise counsel, for the countryside she could roam. Desolate and determined to escape drawing rooms and stultifying society, Jennie is poised to run away on the Ides of March, when she meets, as she and her aunt are out riding in their carriage, the dashing Captain Nigel Gilchrist, attached polished, making up in charm what he lacks in education, he sweeps restless Jennie out of