Charles, a young man of fortune, sets out on his travels resolved to choose a wife by principle rather than by beauty or money. Moving from London drawing rooms to country houses, he weighs heiresses, flirts and accomplished daughters against the virtues his late parents taught him, recording the conversations on education, religion and marriage that he hears along the way.
Hannah More’s only novel, a didactic work hugely read in 1809 and a window on evangelical ideals of womanhood. Download the free EPUB.