The Youngest Miss Ward - Softcover

Aiken, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786218266 ISBN 13: 9780786218264

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Hatty Ward, one of the sisters from Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park," has been sent to live with her uncle by her family who no longer want her around them, but once settled at her new residence, she finds a new battle with Lady Ursula over the affections of a special man

About this title

From the Publisher:

Praise for Joan Aiken:

"Joan Aiken writes with the genius of a born storyteller, with mother wit expanded and embellished by civilized learning, and with the brilliance of an avenging angel." --The New Yorker

"Romantics could do nothing better than to read her." --London Times

"Would Austen approve Emma Watson? Lord knows, but she surely would enjoy her heroine's redemption." --The Los Angeles Times, of Emma Watson (SMP, 1996)

"As always...simply charming." --Kirkus Reviews, of Emma Watson

From the Inside Flap:

Harriet Ward, known as Hatty by her sisters Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, does not at the age of twelve seem destined for a career of infamy. However, treated with utter contempt by all except her mother, who is near death, she is sent to her uncle's estate in Portsmouth, where she must do her best to fit in with her troublesome male cousins and their sickly sisters.

Nevertheless, Hatty has not seen the last of her frightful family. Indeed, events contrive to bring back into her life the haughty Lady Ursula, a friend of her mother's, and Hatty's main source of grief at home. But why should this forbidding woman be traveling so far to attend the funeral of a distant cousin? Rumors run riot and, in an unexpected twist of fortune, Harry soon finds herself in competition with Lady Ursula for the attentions of a certain lord....

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786218266
• ISBN 13: 9780786218264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 489