Within the last 5 years I bought and read a book about a real English Lady in the early 1800's who, for the sake of her health and needing a drier climate sailed to Europe with her maid and journeyed up the Nile river to live in a villa overlooking the Nile . She kept a dairy of her life and the...

Hi I'm looking for a book I read many years ago, unfortunately I cannot remember title or author. I think it was set in the late 1800s, the book was about two sisters whose mother died they then move away with their father, one sister became a famous dressmaker & designer. She found out her...

I read a book about a London rake who was sent to Scotland to pick from three sisters to be his bride from a marriage agreement made by his father and the girls father. Out of the sisters one of them does not want to marry the man so she dresses and acts horrible. The man picks her anyway and...