Title :
A Notorious Lady
Writer :
Chaterine Blair
Page :
220
Publisher and Year : Zebra Regency Romance; 2004
Genre :
Romance
She was Lady in
Biding...
This novel has
four main characters, there are John Caldwell and his friend, Jordan DeVaux who
are Professor of astronomy in Trinity University, Cambridge; and a mysterious
widow called Lady Eleanor Whitcombe and his son, William.
One day,
DeVaux introduced his friend, Lady Whitcombe and William to Caldwell, but the
introduction was not good enough, because Caldwell let Will –which had
respiratory illness- sled in the snow, and it made Lady Whitcombe dislike
Caldwell at the first.
Caldwell was
interested to Lady Whitcombe, but she looked like hid something, unknown story
about her past. She had isolated herself about 9 years from society, until one
day Will got sick and she must brought him to the doctor at the midnight. After
Will was treated by the doctor, the Lady got the problem with the way to back
home, because there was no transpotation in the midnight. But, they met
Caldwell and he brought them to the Observatory. There, Lady Whitcombe told
the truth to the Caldwell, that William was another man’s son, and the marriage
with Whitcome was just arranged. That was why she lived in Potton, because in
London people always humiliate her.
With the
presence of Caldwell, Lady Whitcombe’s life got better. They liked each other. But
the Master of the campus, remind the professor of astronomy that there was no
scandal must attach to Trinity name. Moreover, the Master knew Eleanor’s past
and he hated it. And then one day, Caldwell couldn’t stand with the Master’s
humiliation about Eleanor, so he hit the Master. The effect, Caldwell resigned
from the university. But Eleanor didn’t want this happened, so she asked the
Master to return Caldwell to his position. Finally, the Master resigned
himself, and committee requested Caldwell to stay. And, Caldwell proposed the
Eleanor to become a Lady Caldwell.
The strength
of this romance novel is, we can know a little knowledge about astronomy such
as when Lyrids meteor happened. The weakness of this novel is, there’s a lot of
repetition and lack of attention to the punctuation, such as in page 102 and 121,
there’s no quotation mark that distinguish the end of direct speech and the
indirect one.
The moral
value of this happy ending story is, we can bid from society, but we can’t bide
from love.
D.K.D
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