Author: David Ferrier

1Marriage, volume 1

By Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier

"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and Campaspe.<br /><br /> Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen ("And a half, papa") year old daughter of the Earl of Cortland, is betrothed by her father to a wealthy old Duke who can give her every luxury. She instead runs away and marries her very handsome but penniless lover. Very soon, they are forced to travel to Scotland to live with his quirky family in a rundown "castle" in the barren wilderness. Can this marriage survive? (Summary by P.Cunningham)

2Marriage, volume 2

By Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier

Lady Juliana is the daughter of the Earl of Courtland. She receives a marriage proposal from a wealthy Duke but much to the horror of her father she elopes to Gretna Green a Scottish soldier Henry Douglas. She is disowned and Douglas is dismissed. The couple journey to Glenfern in Scotland and reside with the Douglas family. Juliana is shocked by the difference in lifestyles. Despite all kind-hearted attempts from Henry’s fussing spinster aunts, Miss Grizzy, Miss Jackie and Miss Nicky, Lady Juliana makes no attempt to accept her new life in Scotland and events take some interesting turns. - Summary by Michele Eaton

"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the honorable Thomas St. Clair, the youngest son of the Earl of Rossville, with the humble Miss Sarah Black, a beautiful girl of obscure origin and no fortune." And so the stage is set for our plot, which focuses on the implications and complications of the return from France to Scotland of the Rossville widow and her daughter-heiress Gertrude, who must suffer the onslaught of relations and suitors as well as a mysterious, threatening stranger who plagues her mother. And while we suffer with Gertrude, who also may be in love with the wrong man, we enjoy a myriad of wonderful satiric portraits of the menagerie of minor characters in this lively story. (Summary by Jim Locke)

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier's final novel comes to us in two volumes. Most of the book is placed in the Scottish Highland with rich geographical descriptions. It follows the romantic ties, traditional and flirtatious,along with jealousies, resolutions and the potential dissolution of those ties. In a few words, human nature of the finest in Scotland of the late 1800's. - Summary by Christine Rottger

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier's final novel comes to us in two volumes. Most of the book is placed in the Scottish Highland with rich geographical descriptions. It follows romantic ties, traditional and flirtatious,along with jealousies, resolutions and the potential dissolution of those ties. In a few words, human nature of the finest in Scotland of the 1800's. - Summary by Christine Rottger