A Fair Barbarian, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"[...]mills, and was just settling itself to sleep--the sleep of the just--again, when, as I have said, it was shaken to its foundations. It was Miss Belinda Bassett who received the first shock. Miss Belinda Bassett was a decorous little maiden lady, who lived in a decorous little house on High Street (which was considered a very genteel street in Slowbridge). She had lived in the same house all her life, her father had lived in it, and so also had her grandfather. She had gone out, to take tea, from its doors two or three times a week, ever since she had been twenty; and she had had her little tea-parties in its front parlor as often as any other genteel Slowbridge entertainer. She had risen at seven, breakfasted at eight, dined at two, taken tea at five, and gone to bed at ten, with such regularity for fifty years, that to rise at eight, breakfast at nine, dine at three, and take tea at six, and go to bed at eleven, would, she was firmly convinced, be but "to fly in the face of Providence," as she put it, and sign her own death-warrant. Consequently, it is easy to imagine [...]".
A Fair Barbarian, by Frances Hodgson Burnett- Published on: 2015-03-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .37" w x 6.00" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 162 pages
Review A superior book of its kind-complete with suspense, hectic action and a surprise ending."" -The New York Times Book Review --The New York Times
About the Author Frances Hodgson Burnett is best known for her children's stories The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. Born into the slums of Manchester, she wrote realistic working-class tales with romantic plots. Later in life, she lived in Washington, D.C. and became a US citizen.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Unexpected Humor from Frances Hodgson Burnett By Anne Wingate http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JQV4NW/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_imgThe tiny village of Slowbridge in England is "shaken to its foundations," as the first sentence tells us, by the arrival of Miss Belinda Bassett's not only unexpected, but completely unknown to exist, niece from Bloody Gulch, Nevada. Octavia Bassett, with her trunks of stylish clothes, piles of diamond jewelry, purses of gold coins for the vicar to present to the unfortunate, and utter lack of shyness or what the residents of Slowbridge consider proper maidenly behavior, promptly becomes a close friend of Lucia Gaston, the completely repressed granddaughter of the village matriarch, Lady Theobald.By the time her father and her fiance, who marries her in Slowbridge, take her away along with Miss Belinda Bassett, marriages planned since children were in the cribs have been replaced with previously unimaginable sets of bride and groom, Lady Theobald's plans are slammed to the ground with amazingly good results, dressmaker Miss Chickie can no longer get away with selling identical dresses to all the young women in town, and even Lady Theobald has been forced to accept the existence of Mr. Burmistone, the horrible man who built a factory in Slowbridge . . . and neglected to let anyone know that he was a close friend and relation of Lord Lansdowne.This isn't belly-laugh humor, but there is something delightful on every page. I recommend it strongly.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Delightful! By Meks Librarian "A Fair Barbarian" was published in 1881, when the author was 32 years old. It is, I think, aimed at young ladies, and if you have ever read any of the highly entertaining Georgette Heyer novels, you will enjoy the "Fair Barbarian", which may well have served as an inspiration to that later author.The setting of this book is Slowbridge, an English village which prides itself on the modesty of its young ladies - all dressed in white muslin gowns made by Miss Chickie, the village taylor, who adapts the more fashionable styles from London and Paris to the requirements of Slowbridge's strict rules about what is deemed decent attire for a lady. The whole village is, it seems, socially under one particular lady's authority; whoever she does not invite to her tea parties, is not invited by anyone else, but if she starts the round by inviting someone to her house, everyone else follows suit.One of the lesser mortals living in the village, an elderly lady on her own, receives a surprise visit: her niece (whom she had not even known existed, let alone met before) arrives on her doorstep with five huge trunks, fresh from the US, and announces that she is here to stay - at least until her father, the elderly lady's brother (whom she has not set eyes on for many years) has successfully dealt with a business emergency back home and can join her in England.This newcomer, Octavia Bassett, causes quite the metaphorical whirlwind in the quiet, modest village; her clothes (not the demure gowns of white muslin the other young ladies wear, but dresses that "fit like a glove", plus - imagine that! - diamonds dangling from her ears and on her fingers, in full daylight and without being married!), her hair style, her general demeanour and frank, open manner of speaking to anyone, regardless of their position in the social hierarchy of the village - all that is cause for plenty of gossip from the elderly generation and much admiration from the younger.What changes in the villagers' hearts and minds Miss Octavia manages to bring about - without even consciously doing anything to achieve this - and a glimpse of what her and her new friends' future lives may look like, is told in a most entertaining manner; some bits are rather predictable, while others aren't, but even the predictable bit does not diminuish the pleasure of reading this charming story.While writing this review, I looked up Frances Hodgson Burnett on Wikipedia and learnt a few things about her life, of which I had known nothing before. Because she had spent a lot of time in both her native England and the US, I believe her portrayal of the difference in customs and habits between the one country and the other in those days to be credible and not just added to the story as figments of her imagination to make the character of Octavia more interesting and in contrast to the English girls.I shall definitely look for more of her work in Amazon's Kindle store.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Entertaining Free Read By MainelyClassics As has been described by other reviewers, A Fair Barbarian, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, takes place in the little English village of Slowbridge (emphasis on Slow...). There are aspects of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic North and South. However, Octavia has come to the sleepy, smug English village from Bloody Gulch, Nevada. (Most of the locals dare not even utter the name!) With her (to the locals) over-profusion of jewels and modern ways, she proceeds with great sang froid to gradually disarm the entire (mostly female) population.This read has a lot to do with English manners and decorum, and pride and prejudice... in fact, there is a wedding proposal that bore some resemblance to Darcy and Elizabeth's first round.I reduced this book's rating by one star because the ending was abrupt and could have used some fleshing out. I really liked it otherwise.I am working my way through this author's works. I would rate how it read on my Kindle, but I bought the whole collection. I read a lot of free content, but when I come to like a particular author, I am not averse to spending a couple of dollars on their complete works. That way I have all of the books; I don't miss anything, and it keeps my Kindle less cluttered.
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