The Education of Mrs. Brimley
Emma Brimley pretends to be a widow to find employment at an all-girl's school. But when she's expected to teach the intimacies of marriage, she strikes a scandalous bargain with a neighboring artist-a man well-versed in bedroom etiquette.
Emma Brimley pretends to be a widow to find employment at an all-girl's school. But when she's expected to teach the intimacies of marriage, she strikes a scandalous bargain with a neighboring artist-a man well-versed in bedroom etiquette.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425218303 (0425218309)
Publish date: October 2nd 2007
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Chambers Trilogy (#1)
What a dud. Oy. The plot and set up had sooo much potential but the actual execution was really disappointing and fell completely FLAT. It took me forever to finish this. I just could not get into it and I felt the story dragged out forever. One of my main issues with this was the heroine, Emma. I'm...
I struggled with this one. The plot is of (a) a runaway maiden pretending to be a widow so that she can take a position at a school where (b) she finds out she is expected to teach the girls about their "wifely duties," of which she is also (unbeknownst to the headmistresses) ignorant, so of course ...
In order to escape her uncle's plans to marry her off for money, young teacher pretends to be a widow to teach at a privileged girls' school but finds out that she is required to teach the older girls about marital relations, which she knows nothing about. She agrees to pose as model for artist hero...
The premise of the book sounded promising, but I had some problems with the heroine.Emma ran away from London and her uncle who wanted to sell her to the highest bidder. To get the job at the academy she had to lie and claim that she was a widow. A little unusual requirement, but she didn't hesitate...
A very well-written and atypical historical romance. When Emma Heatherston, masquerading as the widowed Mrs. Brimley, accepts a position as a teacher at Pettibone's finishing school, she has no idea she will be expected to prepared the young ladies for their conjugal duties. Desperate to acquire kno...
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