Miss Cartland's novels are always glamorous, but her thirty-ninth novel, A Duel of Hearts, set in the dashing, elegant period of George IV, has a breath-taking allure which exceeds anything. she has written before.
Menageries or Travelling zoos-inhumane, cruel and barbaric much like circuses, zoos and aquariums are today. Ms Cartland does not recognise the dissonance here...clearly!
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“A menagerie!” Caroline exclaimed. “How exciting! I have seen one at St. Bartholomew’s Fair.”
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They say in the stables that the poor animal was so tired that they had almost to carry it to its stall.
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“Why, Caroline, you are only a female and yet you talk as if you had the determination and strength of ninety men rolled into one.”