The Jewelled Snuff Box, by Alice Chetwynd Ley
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The Jewelled Snuff Box, by Alice Chetwynd Ley
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Eighteenth-century England. Jane Spencer is amongst a group of travellers who are forced to delay their journey due to a snowstorm. Their stage coach is unable to continue its journey through the storm and its passengers are forced to get out and walk to a nearby inn. Jane comes across a unconscious man, the victim of highwaymen, lying half dead in the snow. The man awakes not knowing who he is and is unable to recognize his only possession: a magnificent jewel-encrusted snuff box. Jane nurses him and helps him return to London. But, just as she starts to care for him, he disappears just as suddenly as he appeared in her life, leaving only his snuff box in her possession. On discovering a letter hidden in a secret compartment in the snuff box, she entrusts her lawyer to the care of it. Little does she know that this letter holds the key to a growing mystery. Jane takes up employment as a companion for an Earl’s wife. Unaware of her acquaintance with his wife, Lady Celia, she is shocked to discover the lady is none other than the girl who caused endless trouble during their schooldays. As the days unfold in her new employment, Jane comes face to face again with the unknown man, who she comes to identify as being Sir Richard Carisbrooke. Her feelings for him continue to grow, yet she is forced to hide them as it appears Sir Richard is enamoured by Celia herself. As they mystery unfolds, Jane’s employment as a companion becomes unbearable. She is placed in an awkward situation and is forced to make decisions – ones that may affect the rest of life…. ‘The Jewelled Snuff Box’ is an intriguing regency romance, perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer and Jane Aiken Hodge. 'A memorable, page-turning read.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'. Alice Chetwynd Ley is the author of several historical and contemporary romances, including ‘A Season at Brighton’, ‘The Toast of the Town’, ‘The Georgian Rake’ and ‘The Guinea Stamp’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
The Jewelled Snuff Box, by Alice Chetwynd Ley- Amazon Sales Rank: #55890 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-09
- Released on: 2015-03-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Quite the Regency oldie. From 1959. By OLT Oh, the magic of e-books. Out-of-print oldies available for reading again. Of course, this is the old-fashioned style Regency romance so it won't be to all tastes, especially those who enjoy the sexier recently-written HRs. After all, this book is 56 years old. But I had a great time reading it.Alice Chetwynd Ley (1913-2004) was a British writer of romance novels. She wrote these romances between 1959 and 1986 and this one is, I believe, her first. Her romances are quite old-school but, for me, they're a warm, comforting read. The writing is good, the characters engaging, and the plots, although predictable, hold my interest.This one has a bit of a mystery along with the romance. Heroine Jane is on her way to London to her new place of employment. The coach meets with a snowstorm and, as the passengers walk to a nearby inn, they discover an unconscious man, apparent victim of a robbery. He wakes up with amnesia and is befriended by Jane. They go off to London where he disappears w/o a trace.But there's much more to come. Jane goes to her new job as companion to a young countess and the story is off and running. There are lots of coincidences here to make the story go where the author wants it to, probably more than one could expect in real life, and some too-good-to-be-true events in the heroine's life but I liked this a lot and hope to find more of Chetwynd Ley's books available in e-format.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. If She Would Only Have Given Back The Box..... By I. Zawilski This book started out wonderfully well. Jane, come down in the world, on her way to a companion position, basically saves the hero's life, and since he's been left for dead after a robbery, she even managed to fund his trip to London. He insists upon having her hold, as collateral, his snuffbox that the robbers somehow missed. The twist here is that the hero, who is obviously a gentleman of some substance, has amnesia. Jane suggests that he accompany her to her solicitor, where she's going anyway to tap some of her very limited funds for some new clothes. They get to London, she and the solicitor look over the snuffbox (while the hero waits outside) and find a compromising, if cryptic, letter. Jane gives the box to the solicitor and then goes outside to find the gentleman. He has vanished without a trace.Jane finds that her companion position is with a former schoolmate, Celia, who has married a much older man for position and title. Celia, although beautiful, is as shallow and nasty as you expect. Jane accompanies Celia to a meeting with a man who turns out to be Jane's mysterious stranger. Now he knows who he is, but he no longer remembers the events surrounding his former meeting with Jane.This is where the story went off the rails for me. The man, Richard, is a former suitor of Celia. Then Jane finds out that he is the brother of another of her former classmates, with whom she has reconnected, and with whom she has a good relationship. So what does she do? Does she go to the former classmate's house, tell Richard what happened to him and immediately return his snuffbox? No! There was no good reason why she doesn't, especially since she has begun to have feelings for him. No, she lets him run all around the place looking for it and causes all kinds of trouble for everybody. For absolutely no reason.There's a lot more and a twist I didn't see coming. This book was technically well written but I just could not get past Jane's failure to do what anybody would do. Even in a romance novel, where people do stupid things, drag their feet and don't communicate, this was just too over the top.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Very Old School, But A Good Read By Judge Tabor Amazingly good for a book written so many, many years ago. It was apparently first published in 1959 according to Wikipedia.This book isn't for everyone. For many of us who've been soaked again and again and even perhaps brainwashed by the hundreds and thousands of accounts of exactly how Society went about business during the Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras, some of the lingo in this book is a bit different.We have our main guy a victim of amnesia, while our sweet, little heroine, Jane Spencer, puts aside her own interests to help him at the inn where they are both stranded. She's on her way to a new position and he's on his way... Well, he doesn't know where he's supposed to go or what he's supposed to do. When they decide to go to her attorney's office for a bit of business, he leaves her with her attorney, planning to return... and voila! He's gone again and she's left with his jeweled snuffbox which contains a very compromising letter seemingly written by a lady (or perhaps not a lady).Sadly, Jane goes about her business, greatly regretting that her connection to this gentleman appears to be at an end. However, they meet before many days pass and it seems he now remembers who he is, but doesn't remember Jane. So, the story goes forward with Jane keeping her own counsel while becoming accustomed to her new job - that of companion to a horrid former schoolmate.Complications ensue and we're soon involved in a bit of a mystery and some romance. Very old school but I did enjoy reading it.
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