She cares more about her education throughout the book and I feel like that would have been a more authentic and successful focus for the author to have taken. She wants the freedom to be herself and be independent and bone hot men. Annabelle cares about women’s rights because she cares about herself and doesn’t want to be the property of some ugly idiot. I wasn’t even reading the book for the feminist tones, like many people were, and I could see how flimsy the premise was. That’s about as much activism as the main character partakes in. Thus she is thrust in the path of the Duke of Montgomery, hoping to win his vote to reform the Women’s Property Act. However, as part of her scholarship requirements, she must help the Suffragists on campus. She convinces her dolt of a cousin, whom is in charge of her, to let her study at Oxford and thinks that she will live a fulfilled life as a studious spinster. It is about a 25 year old woman, Annabelle, who is vastly over-educated for her low station and has ruined her prospects by having an out-of-wedlock affair when she was 17.
I’m getting ahead of myself, but man this book was frustrating. The Suffragist movement in 1800’s Britain that was supposed to be a huge part of it was wholeheartedly overshadowed by how much the main characters wanted to do each other.Īnd the doing wasn’t even worth the wait! Good god. There was nothing feminist about this book.
It was the most annoying kind of “fake woke” book that had relevant enough taglines to draw modern readers in. This book had virtually nothing going for it. I’m sorry, but, it was really quite terrible. But hey, it was available at the library and SO MANY people seem to love it so, why not? HAHAHAHA I’ll be honest, I didn’t really know how I’d feel about this one going into it.
“Because, my lord, if the marchioness believes that the female brain is incapable of forming a sound analysis on political issues, why should anyone trust her analysis on women in politics?”
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