num_pages: 165
description: Note: this book contains Book Club Conversation Starters! What can orphaned Cecilia Beaumaris a too tall too outspoken gentlewoman with no pretensions to beauty and no fortune do when the school she has been living in for nearly fifteen years first as a pupil then as a teacher is closed down and she has to leave? She decides to open her own school of course. But she cant touch her small inheritance until she is twenty-five so she has to live temporarily with her aunt and uncle. But they dont want her. To get her married off they invent a fortune she doesnt have and she is besieged by fortune hunters. Enter Lord Thomas Allenby a handsome fashionable fribble who has his own reasons for wanting to escape the marriage mart. He persuades her to announce a faux betrothal but it doesnt work out quite how Cecilia expects. Against the background of early nineteenth century London with its fashionable Mayfair mansions East End slums and the development of public education this Regency Romance is the story of how one woman seeks to improve the lives of impoverished girls by opening a school for them. The effect on her own life is beyond her wildest imaginings. 
language: English
title: Cecilia or Too Tall To Love
publisher: None