Angel in Scarlet

This book brings me back to vague memories of a past life in England. I can read it over and over and it is just like the first time, every time. I have never met a heroine so much like myself; it's haunting!! Brings me back to life and restores my inner joy and spirits. Great escape and a way to go back in time, when life was much less complicated and captivating!!

I read this one when I was 14, and have since read it again. I change my mind about who she should be with each time. The heroine can survive on her own anyway, and she proves it over and over. A good read.

So many hearts broken in so little time. This book was wonderful in the fact that the ending was unpredictable. Angel doesn't mourn pitifully for a lost love throughout the entire book, as we see in so many others (including other Wilde books), and it is resolved quite well. Angel is a very believeable and loveable character with many strong traits. One thing I love about this book is the constant presence of what amounts to be a childhood nuisance. You'll have to see for yourself! It's definitely a great read.

What is fabulous about this book is that it dares to be different. There is no other romance like it. Since a previous reviewer has already given away the ending, it can't hurt for me to reveal more. No, the heroine didn't end up with the dark, brooding man who took her virginity, but instead with the man who became her friend and proved, over and over, that he truly cared about her--truly loved her. It was such a startling plot twist, that it threw me.BTW, use of the finger has been around for centuries in most Western countries; it is NOT a 20th century American vulgarism, nor is telling people to go to hell. This book also isn't set in Regency England. For instance, Thomas Gainsborough wasn't just a character in this book, he was a real person--and he died in 1788. Even the most liberal interpretation of the years constituting Regency England wouldn't have it begin until at least 1800.

Angie is young and naive. She falls in love with Hugh Bradford (Lord Meridith's bastard son) even with his moody ways and ugly looks. She looses to him her innocence, and is devistated when he leaves her. If things can't get worse for her, her beloved father dies, and her Stepmother, Marie, takes her off to England with her two daughters.Angela has been in England for months. She has grown stronger after her ordeal with Hugh. She now works in Maries gambling house. One day, she sees a man from her past. Nope, it wasn't Hugh, sorry if i got your hopes up. It was Lord Clinton Merideth. The spoiled, rich aristocrat that had asked her to sleep with him when she was fifteen. Her stepmother sells Angela to him, and Angela runs away to live her friend Megan in Covenant Garden where she works as a seamstress for her other friend Dotty. One day she is taken off the street by a man named Gainsborough. He asks her to sit for a painting. She reluctantly accepts. The painting becomes a hit. The Angel In Scarlet is known all over London, but no one knows her true identity...until she goes over to the theater, mends a dress, and, on short notice, is COMMANDED to be a walk on in the play by Jamie Lambert. Before she could do anything, she is pushed onto the stage and forced to say her lines. Big ooops when she is recognized as the Angel in Scarlet.Angel is a beloved actress. She is wanted by many of the famous directors, and has a relationship with the owner of the Lambert Theater, Jamie Lambert. Then, Hugh comes back into her life while Jamie is away. She tries to resist him, breaks off with Jamie, and like a fool falls back in love with Hugh. Hugh tells her that he will proove his legitimacy at ANY cost. He puts they're relationship on the line, and Angel is once again left with a broken heart. Oh, what to do...?This is a great book. Angela Howard is wonderful heroin and is a very believable character. This is a very funny book and i loved the way Angela spoke to all those infuriating men. This is one of the greatest books i have ever read and i thank Ms.Wilde for writing it.

This is the best Jennifer Wilde book by far. It's about Angela Howard, a School-teacher's daughter who becomes the toast of London on the stage of 18th cent. She even gets painted by Gainsborough, meets many famous people from that era and becomes wealthy. It is written from the piont of view of Angela and you would truely belive she was a real living breathing person.