![]() ![]() The book also reflects the casual racism of its day. Both are well-born women with little money in an era when such women had few job opportunities. The Persephone Forum compares Emily Fox-Seton with the title character of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. In the sequel, originally The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, Emily has Walderhurst's child, and his former heir, Alec Osborn, attempts to regain what he sees as his birthright. In a Cinderella-like twist, Emily marries a man twenty years her senior, James, the Marquess of Walderhurst, thus becoming a marchioness. ![]() Her chief employer is Lady Maria Bayne, who is both very selfish and very funny, although she does come to care for Emily. As the novel opens, she is 34 years old, living in a small room in a lodging house in an unfashionable area of London. The collected version was republished by Persephone Books in 2007, and it was then adapted for radio and television.Įmily Fox-Seton is a woman of good birth but no money who had worked as a lady's companion and now assists various members of the upper class with day-to-day practical matters. Subsequent editions published the two books together, either under the original name The Making of a Marchioness or as Emily Fox-Seton. The Making of a Marchioness is a 1901 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, followed by a sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst. ![]()
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