When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful -- if rebellious -- Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart,…
Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined---long hou…
Lady Rose Summer is a wayward Edwardian debutante. Her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only to stop her parents shipping her to India for a husband. But curvy seductive Frenc…
Elderly widow Lady Fortescue must escape genteel poverty. If each of five geriatrics relieve a rich relative of a costly trifle, they can turn her house into a hotel for the ton. Her nephew, Duke of R…
Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart have an engagement of convenience to keep her from India and failed debutantes. She befriends newly arrived Miss Dolly Tremaine, stabbed to death and floati…
Colonel Sandhurst 70s, an owner of popular Poor Relations Hotel, fears calling in debt owed by Sir Randolph Gray. Sandhurst offers Gray daughter, fetching Frederica 17, refuge from marriage with hefty…
With the inhabitants of the Poor Relation Hotel requiring more money, pretty dainty widow Lucy Budley is sent to convince a rich, senile, old Marquess that she is a relative. But the handsome Marquess…
Is Number 67 Clarges Street the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high ren…
Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym on the stagecoach to Portsmouth realizes beautiful, rich, but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, like handsome and carefree Lord …
Miss Hannah Pym 45 retires from housekeeping to ride the 1800 stagecoach, first to Exeter. Spoiled beauty Emily flees marriage to older Lord Ranger Harley 33. Widow Lizzie Bisley regrets engagement to…
The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London, its guests are paying hard cash, and its owners are preparing to sell up and return to a life of quality. But one last romantic adventure awaits them.
Sir Philip Somerville "elderly tortoise" brings fat vulgar greedy mistress Mrs Budge into Poor Relation Hotel against wishes of owner elegant Lady Amelia Fortescue 70s and partners Colonel Sandhurst 7…
Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre Armitage is determined to marry for love, rejecting the choice of their hunt-happy vicar father. Lord Harry Desire is well-bred, good-looking - and rich. Deirdre contrive…
On the London Quicksilver 1800s stagecoach to "The Bath", Miss Hannah Pym 45 finds Miss Belinda Earle banished for running off with a footman, so her fond-of-drink chaperone Miss Wimple gossips. Coach…
Daphne Armitage, exquisite black-haired beauty of six sisters, intends to avoid the turmoil of true love by demanding nothing more of a husband than to be an elegant companion. The self-absorbed Mr Ar…
