His Philanthropic Lady

A Regency romance

By: Susan Leona Fisher

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Lady Susannah Thistlewood is determined never to marry, but to devote herself to charitable endeavours to help those less fortunate than herself. She is fairly confident no one will offer for her anyway. For a start, she has resisted being presented, added to which, she has a reputation for being somewhat outspoken and behaving inappropriately in society. Attending a friend’s wedding, she encounters Sir Edward Derringham, who has recently finished with his latest mistress and is open to new possibilities. When Susannah’s thoughtless behaviour causes him to land in undignified fashion in a heap on the road, he decides the young woman needs teaching a lesson. Aware of her determination not to marry, he calls upon her father to request her hand. The campaign that follows is reminiscent of his time in the army, but also requires him to take a hard look at himself and his life-style. Unbeknownst to them both, a jealous society lady is spreading rumours about Susannah, intending to get her into trouble with the Church authorities. Are the rumours true? Can her reputation survive? And will Edward still want her?

Interesting Post Regency Story - Fair VV Narration

Interesting details for 1828 London etal with Strong, intelligent female and rather typical tall, dark and seemingly deadly rakish male (at least to begin with). I was caught by story of this upper crust lady’s crusade to help poor women as well as children and toward the end, the practices of the Church of England in bringing charges against people. The Virtual Voice’s VOICE was pretty good but it is still either uninflected or wrongly inflected as to a character’s personality or emotion and it doesn’t distinguish between characters let alone between males and females. Still, it wasn’t terrible.