When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place an advertisement and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage.
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Diese Serie taucht ein in die Welt der Londoner Gesellschaftssaisons, in der sich zwei exzentrische Schwestern der Aufgabe widmen, ungezogene Töchter in gesellschaftsfähige Damen zu verwandeln. Mit einer humorvollen Betrachtung von Etikette und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen verfolgen die Leser ihre unkonventionellen Methoden und überraschenden Erfolge. Es ist eine Geschichte über Verwandlung, Freundschaft und die Suche nach dem eigenen Platz in den oberen Kreisen.
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When Fiona Macleod is sent by her guardian aunt and uncle to spend a London season with the Tribble sisters, it is something of a last resort. At nineteen, Fiona is a beautiful and wealthy Scottish heiress, yet for some mysterious reason, her several proposals of marriage over the past few years have all fallen through at the last moment.
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When Amy and Effy Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on a much needed inheritance, they place an advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client in this Regency series.
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Lovely, wealthy and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion - but all her efforts seem doomed to failure.
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Maria Kendall is beautiful, delightfully mannered, graceful and extremely well-dowered and the Tribble sisters think that they will have no problem in securing her a duke. They have not, however, reckoned on her boorish and vulgar parents and realise very soon that their greatest challenge yet will not be in taking on Maria but the hopelessly common Kendalls as well!
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"Amy and Effy Tribble place an advertisement in the Morning Post and hire themselves out as chaperones to prepare difficult young misses for marriage, educating them in their School for Manners. Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of a Methodist minister, is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity - too much so, perhaps, for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from fashionable but the Tribble sisters feel confident their new charge will attract a worthy vicar or two before the end of the season - if first they can vanquish confirmed rake and gambler Lord Charles Marsham, who seems perversely determined to woo Harriet!"--Publisher description.
