Contents ( 52)
- praise for
- The Siren of Sussex
- Also by Mimi Matthews
- belles of london novels
- Contents
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Epilogue
- Author’s Note
- Literary Inspiration
- Victorian Views on Novel Reading and Bloodletting
- False Names, Marriage, and the Law
- The Fall of Sebastopol
- Acknowledgments
- Discussion Questions
- What’s next on your reading list?
—Stephanie Barron, author of That Churchill Woman
Also by Mimi Matthews
belles of london novels
The Siren of Sussex
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Copyright © 2022 by Mimi Matthews
Readers Guide copyright © 2022 by Mimi Matthews
Excerpt from The Lily of Ludgate Hill copyright © 2022 by Mimi Matthews
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Matthews, Mimi, author.
Title: The Belle of Belgrave Square / Mimi Matthews.
Description: First Edition. | Berkley Romance, 2022. |
Series: Belles of London; 2
Identifiers: LCCN 2022001074 (print) | LCCN 2022001075 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780593337158 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780593337172 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels. Classification: LCC PS3613.A8493 B45 2022 (print) |
LCC PS3613.A8493 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022001074
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022001075
First Edition: October 2022
Cover design and illustration by Farjana Yasmin
Book design by Daniel Brount, adapted for ebook by Molly Jeszke
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Contents
Cover
Praise for The Siren of Sussex
Also by Mimi Matthews
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Readers Guide
Excerpt from The Lily of Ludgate Hill
About the Author
For my father, Eugene.
Kind, steadfast, honorable; a true hero.
Such is the effect of the excitement of novel reading upon the nervous system, that the only way to obtain momentary ease, is to plunge into another as soon as one is finished.
—Confessions and Experience of a Novel Reader, 1855
One
London, England
June 1862
Julia Wychwood was alone in Rotten Row, and that was exactly the way she liked it.