Title: Gwendolen
Description: "Gwendolen Harleth, an exceptionally beautiful upper-class Englishwoman, is gambling boldly at a resort when she catches the eye of a handsome, pensive gentleman. His gaze unnerves her, and she loses her winnings. The next day, she learns that her widowed mother and younger sisters, for whom she is financially responsible, have lost their family's fortune. As a young woman in the 1860s with only her looks to serve her, Gwendolen's options are few, so when Henleigh Grandcourt, a wealthy aristocrat, proposes to her, she accepts, despite her discovery of an alarming secret about his past"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Social classes, NEW LIST 20150531, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, historical, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Roman, Englisch
Places: England
People: Gwendolen (Fictitious character) Harleth, Henleigh (Fictitious character) Grandcourt
Time periods: 19th century