Posted by Teddyrose@1 on January 18, 2010
Posted in Short Story Read in 2010 | 7 Comments
Thanks to Nan of Letters from a Hill Farm for reviewing this short story last week.
This is a charming epistolary ,historical short that takes place in 1840. There are three main characters, Mr.Ambrose Rogers, a man in his 30’s who lives in the West Indies, looking for a wife. Miss Adelaide Fairfax, a woman he met in Bath and writes to asking is she knows of a possible wife for him, and Lady Steyne, a woman in her 30’s who had lost hope of every becoming someones wife.
When Ambrose writes to Miss Fairfax looking for a wife, she knows just the woman, Lady Steyne and writes to her right away. Mr. Rogers and Lady Steyne start writing each other and a spark is there.
I wont tell you anymore because I don’t want to give anything away. I really enjoyed this story. It was well formed with delightful characters. I love reading epistolary stories because writing letters was the way people communicated back then. Today, we have lost this form of expressing ourselves, for the most part. You can read this story on
Nicola Slades website. It is a quick read and quite worthwhile.
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