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Quits! by Jemima Montgomery, Baroness Tautphoeus A sparkling novel of a feisty heroine and her travels through Southern Germany and Austria in 1850 ‘Quits!’ tells the story of the charming Nora Nixon, a very un-Victorian miss brought up all over Europe. Orphaned at a young age she returns to England - only to be snubbed by her mother’s aristocratic relations and consigned to the care of her businessman uncle. Having at last inherited his money, she travels again in Southern Germany and Austria, sorting out local people’s problems as she goes and visiting the Oberammergau Passion Play of 1850. Will she at last call it Quits! with her aristocratic cousin and marry him? Or will she settle for the amusing and artistic Count Waldemar? Only the last page will tell. Jemima Montgomery was born in Donegal in 1805. She married Baron von Tautphoeus of a noble Bavarian family and spent the rest of her life in and around Munich. Her four novels about her adopted homeland were much admired in her day but are now unjustly forgotten. This new edition should put that right. |
