![]() He’s not lacking in encouragement to do his duty to find a wife and beget an heir, but he really couldn’t be bothered. Always elegantly attired from his perfectly windswept hair to the toes of his gleaming Hessian boots, he’s generally unutterably bored. Very much a dandy he is known as the “Man of Fashion” who cares for nothing but “ the set of his cravat, polish on his boots, and the blending of his snuff“. In this case, Sir Richard Wyndham is the Corinthian. ![]() one who lives luxuriously or, sometimes, dissolutely. The dictionary defines it as:Ī man about town, esp. I wasn’t sure at first just what a Corinthian was, though it’s easy to infer the meaning over the course of the novel. It’s a light-hearted comedy of manners and very much an adventure story with all sorts of twists and turns and misunderstandings - not surprising since the heroine spends the entire novel dressed as a boy! The Corinthian is the perfect summer read, a page-turning romp through Regency England with all the right elements pulled off perfectly. ![]() ![]() Guest review by Danielle of A Work in Progress ![]()
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