The Education of Miss Pa

This was the first book I had read from Marion and I have to say that I enjoyed every bit of it. Miss Pattersons youthfulness jumped right out of the pages, without Patricia being annoyingly sugarcoated and overly innocent. Miss Patterson is a very pretty, albeit chubby young girl living in Regency England, enjoying the pleasures of a comfortable life, although missing her deceased parents. Since her guardian has not bothered to put in an apperance, Patricia is free. She has everything exactly the way she wants it, and her staff adore her. Suddenly, an unwelcome stranger enters her life, declaring himself her guardian and that her child-like life is to be stopped in favor of growing up. He's disgusted by the girls flirtative nature and without her consent, he appoints a stern but somehow featherbrained governess, whom Miss Patterson dislikes from moment one. Feeling pushed over the edge, Miss Patterson manages to get herself locked in a room to think about her bahaviour towards people. Meanwhile Miss Patterson's governess has decided to take Lord Charles polite civility as a sign that she and Lord Charles would be perfectly suited and is determined to have him. Patricia decides that she no longer wishes to be shut away, and after escaping, finds herself looking through the window watching a very comfortable Lord Charles with Patricia's governess. Angered at their lack of care about her she manages to hurl furniture through the window. Enraged at her unseemly conduct, Lord Charles turns her over his knee and sends her to America to grow up. She returns years later, and the story gets juicier. It's extremely funny, fast paced, romantic and gratifying to watch Patricia change from the young girl to a funny, witty, funloving Lady. Very enjoyable I highly recommend it.

Lord Charles demands Patricia act the part of a proper and boring young Miss. Worse, she has to spend all her waking hours in cultivating her mind with a horrid governess. Rebellion is the name of her game, and he soon sends her off to America to prevent a terrible disgrace! A few years later... SHE'S BACK ! And determined to turn this hateful tyrant into her lovelorn servent!