Frederica in Fashion — Marion Chesney

"SINCE THERE IS NO HOPE OF MY SECURING AN ELIGIBLE PARTI, DUE TO A SAD LACK OF LOOKS, I AM RUNNING AWAY...."

So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica Armitage withstand a Season's scrutiny after the five beauties before her had married so magnificently? The only solution is to run away from home...

Disguised as a chambermaid, Freddie found her way into the household of the fashionable Duke of Pembury. That wild gentleman was soon on to her tricks and found himself escorting the lady to London.

Once on the marriage mart, the five sisters preened and primped the youngest until Freddie could not recognize herself! But a certain gentleman can, but they did not seem to notice that the gentleman's attention had Freddie blooming. Whether dressed in her finery or disguised as a frump, he wants her just the same! And so it would seem that Freddie is not fated to be plain -- or unmarried -- after all...