![]() ![]() ![]() When they are formally introduced she is shy and dull, and he is unimpressed. Horrified, Phoebe is also put off by the reasons for the alliance and her memory of the cold, proud Duke of Salford from her London season. Meanwhile, word reaches Phoebe’s spiteful stepmother that the Duke of Salford will shortly make an offer for her hand and commands her to accept. Sylvester soon travels to London to consult Lady Ingham, but he is put off by her inelegant attempt to fix the match solely based on the fact that her daughter, Phoebe’s mother, and his mother were best friends. He allowed half a dozen ladies “ in the whole range of my acquaintance, which are really accomplished.”) -) However, among the list of beautiful and well-bred young women, his mother does not see her first choice, the Hon Phoebe Marlow, granddaughter of his godmother Dowager Lady Ingham. Darcy was more generous in his assessment of the female sex. In his twenty-eighth year, he has taken it upon himself to marry, much to the surprise of his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Salford, producing a short-list of five suitable debutantes that meet his exacting standards of an accomplished woman! (Mr. ![]() Its protagonist (or maybe antagonist) is the wealthy, arrogant, and pragmatic Sylvester Rayne, the Duke of Salford. Originally published in 1957, Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle is one of Georgette Heyer’s more popular Regency romance novels. ![]()
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