Finessing Clarissa
By: by M.C. Beaton
Edition: [Large print edition].
Series: The School for manners -- [4]
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Long Preston, North Yorkshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780750537629
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Amy and Effy Tribble place an advertisement in the Morning Post and hire themselves out as chaperones to prepare difficult young misses for marriage, educating them in their School of Manners. Lovely, wealthy and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion - but all her efforts are doomed to failure. And when Clarissa enters the Tribble sisters' home, they fear their reputation for matchmaking success may be destroyed - along with their carpets and furniture!
Notes: Standard print edition originally published under the name Marion Chesney. New York : St. Martin's, 1989.