Baroness Orczy wrote The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Tale of the XVIIth Century. The plot opens with Sir Marmaduke de Chevasse, who is determined to acquiring Lady Sue's fortune for himself. Sue is a young woman with a girlish figure who delights in her classmates' admiration...
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk is a historical romance set in 17th-century England. The story follows a cunning nobleman, Sir Marmaduke, who devises a scheme to secure wealth through deception, only to be met with unexpected twists and moral reckoning. Filled with suspense, intrigue,...
""The Nest of the Sparrowhawk"" is a historical romance novel set in the 17th century, written by Emmuska Orczy and published in 1909. The story follows the adventures of Sir Marmaduke Carstairs, a young Englishman who travels to France to seek his fortune. He becomes entangled...
The Nest of the Sparrowhawk is a historical romance novel set in the seventeenth century, written by Emmuska Orczy in 1909. The story follows the life of Sir Marmaduke Carstairs, a wealthy Englishman who falls in love with a beautiful French woman named Yvonne de Kerlow. However,...
A dastardly deception Lady Sue was young, lovely, fresh - and due to inherit a vast fortune when she came of age. Sir Marmaduke was a Roundhead - and supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. It is 1657. King Charles I's head is long gone and Cromwell rules as Protector...
A dastardly deception Lady Sue was young, lovely, fresh - and due to inherit a vast fortune when she came of age. Sir Marmaduke was a Roundhead - and supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. It is 1657. King Charles I's head is long gone and Cromwell rules as Protector...
A dastardly deception Lady Sue was young, lovely, fresh - and due to inherit a vast fortune when she came of age. Sir Marmaduke was a Roundhead - and supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. It is 1657. King Charles I's head is long gone and Cromwell rules as Protector...
A dastardly deception Lady Sue was young, lovely, fresh - and due to inherit a vast fortune when she came of age. Sir Marmaduke was a Roundhead - and supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. It is 1657. King Charles I's head is long gone and Cromwell rules as Protector...
A dastardly deception Lady Sue was young, lovely, fresh - and due to inherit a vast fortune when she came of age. Sir Marmaduke was a Roundhead - and supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. It is 1657. King Charles I's head is long gone and Cromwell rules as Protector...