The Grand Sophy

The three marriages Grand Sophy is a novel by Georgette Heyer. The book, set in the London Company in 1816, appeared in the original English under the title The Grand Sophy for the first time in 1950.

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Sophia Stanton - Lacy is a 20 -year-old woman who grew up very independent daughter of a widowed British diplomat in several cities on the European continent. When her father has a mission in South America, he sends them to the family of his sister Lady Ombersley to London in order to be introduced there into society and find a husband. In the Ombersley Family house but there is a depressed mood: Because of the many debts of Lord Ombersley, the oldest son, Charles, who inherited a fortune from an uncle, took the reins in his hand. In contrast to his easy-going father, he is a serious young man who has also with an equally serious woman, Eugenia Wraxton, engaged.

Sophy, which is very lively and distinctive, deeply affected the life in the house of Ombersley. Especially her habit to make independent decisions, brings her cousin Charles against them, who is supported in his antipathy towards Sophy of his stuffy fiancee Eugenia. So they threatened a moneylender with her gun to force him to surrender a ring that her frivolous cousin, Hubert, a younger brother of Charles, has pledged. Your ultimate goal is that Hubert confided in by itself for his brother what he makes by itself. Against the will of Charles she also buys a high-rise Sport Phaeton, as he is of the opinion that such a vehicle was not for a woman. Is incomprehensible for him that she wants to do the purchasing of horses in person and the money for it even gets off the bench, which is not lawful for a lady of society. Gradually, he must show respect her but because he realizes that Sophy no spoiled little girl, but a confident and worldly woman who knows very well what it does and can and other moral criteria than mere conventions.

At the end Sophy has donated to their own satisfaction three marriages: Your young cousin Cecilia realizes that her affection is to the poor poet Augustus Fawnhope not permanent and falls in love by the family preferred candidate Lord Charlbury. Eugenia is verkuppelt Sophy with the hypochondriacal Lord Bromford, and she goes to her cousin Charles, who has discovered his humor again, her hand in marriage.