Record Added: 8/1/2022 Setting  England Topic Adult Fiction, Classics Publisher Little, Brown, & Company Year 1944 Age 13-YA Pages 270 Description Printed dustjacket
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Cluny Brown follows the escapades of a plumber's niece, Cluny Brown, who is twenty years old in England in 1938. Cluny has high spirits and a constant desire for expansion of experience that leads the more staid members of her community to question whether she knows her place. As a consequence of one final London based excursion of discovery outside the bounds of what Cluny's mentors consider proper, she is sent off into good service with a charming country residence known as Friars Carmel to be a Tall Parlour Maid.
The coincidental simultaneous arrivals of the young son and heir of the house, a mysterious Polish professor, and a beautiful socialite add complexity to this adventurous tale of a young woman following her dreams and finding her personal freedom in the tumultuous early 20th century. |
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From basement bookstore of Rank's Mercantile in Virginia City, MT July 2022 (Duke's visit).
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