The Beau and the Bluestocking Author:Alice Chetwynd Ley London, 1780 — Haughty and determined, the beautiful young Alethea wanted more from a gentleman than love or money.... — Educated in the country by her scholarly father and raised as an equal with her brothers, lovely Alethea Newnham was unfamiliar with the frivolities of the haute monde. And when she was invited to stay at her fashionable a... more »unt's house in London, she found it difficult to play the romantic games that seemed to be all the rage with her cousins. So it happened that when the dashing notorious Beau Devenish began casting his eyes her way. Alethea quite naturally ignored him -- until she discovered that even the finest intelligence, in the nicest young ladies, could not outsmart a cleverly captured heart.... « less