The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South

Haughty Lady Helen Radney is one of Londons most beautiful women and the daughter of a duke. What would happen, I wondered, if a member of this class-a female in this case-were forced by economic necessity to marry a wealthy man with no pretensions to gentility at all? Would she 'refine' him? Would she learn to love him anyway? This is the premise of THE WEAVER TAKES A WIFE, a Regency 'My Fair Lady' tale with a twist. The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South on BookBub. I've read dozens-perhaps hundreds-of Regencies, and while several of them had heroes who married the daughters of wealthy Cits, these young ladies always had the veneer of gentility: they'd been educated at a Bath seminary, for instance, where they were introduced to the manners and mores of the aristocracy. The threat turned out to be an empty one, as the lady was eventually married to a peer of the realm, but it caught my interest. Lady Helen Radney is a mean spirited, rude and snobbish young woman and Mr Ethan Brundy is a generous, forgiving, patient, gentle, ordinary man. South recently moved to Loveland, Colorado, where she has a stunning view of Longâ€™s Peak from her office window.Some time ago, I read a Regency in which an impoverished duke threatened to marry off his daughter to a wealthy Cit. In addition to her popular series of Regency mysteries featuring idealistic young Bow Street Runner John Pickett (described by All About Romance as â€œa little young, but wholly delectableâ€), she is the award-winning author of several Regency romances, including the critically acclaimed The Weaver Takes a Wife.Ī native and long-time resident of Alabama, Ms. Readers will find themselves cheering for the unlikely hero as he storms the bastions of Regency society. South came to the conclusion she would simply have to do it herself. Set in London and Lancashire in 1816, The Weaver Takes a Wife is an elegant and witty romance which pairs a proud society beauty with a wealthy but low born industrialist. Since Georgette Heyer was dead and could not write any more Regencies, Ms. Although she doubtless would have been a chambermaid had she actually lived in Regency England, that didnâ€™t stop her from fantasizing about waltzing the night away in the arms of a handsome, wealthy, and titled gentleman.

World of my own creation that seems to Read More.Īt the age of sixteen, Sheri Cobb South discovered Georgette Heyer, and came to the startling realization that she had been born into the wrong century. When I first conceived the idea for a romantic mystery series set in RegencyĮngland, I had no idea how many books it would run Read More.Īs a writer of fiction, I tend to spend a good deal of time in an imaginary Sheri Cobb South | Moonlighting in Regency England