Publication

1979 - E. P. Dutton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

55,750 words, Guess

Page Count

223 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100525097503
  • ISBN-139780525097501
  • LibraryThing5136033
  • Goodreads1838276
  • Library of Congress Control Number78074023
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC823/.9/14
  • LCCPZ4.T848 El 1979
  • LCCPR6070.R57 El 1979

Description

The engagement in 1814 of Julia to Richard Beaumont brings Julia's cousin Eliza Stanhope into contact with Richard's brother Francis, newly returned from the Peninsular War, and his friend Pelham Howell. In the first of these aquaintances Eliza meets a spirit as fierce as her own, in the second a charm and devotion she never thought to receive. It is the loyalty the two men feel for each other that must resolve the ensuing triangle. And so the transformation of a wilful child into a loving woman takes place. But the complete world that Eliza creates around her marriage is shattered by the news of Napoleon's escape from Elba and the call to arms that will take her to her moment of truth on the field of Waterloo.

Subjects

Places

EnglandWaterloo (France)

People

JuliaPelham HowellEliza StanhopeRichard Beaumon

Times

1814Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • Eliza StanhopeE. P. Dutton1979

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