When Sebastian’s younger, ne’er-do-well brother, Peregrin, invites a group of women students from Oxford to the ducal manse, he tells everyone the Duke was to be away in France. Sebastian Devereux, Duke of Montgomery, spent years repairing his family reputation now he holds Queen Victoria’s confidence. But first she has to convince her cousin Gilbert that having a college-educated nanny-governess-cook-maid-of-all-work would ultimately benefit him and his ever-growing brood. Upon winning a scholarship as one of its first female students, she is told of one small caveat: she must recruit men to support the growing women’s suffrage movement. At a time when women stayed at home to ply domestic arts and raise families, Annabelle Archer is determined to study at Oxford. Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women)ġ879.
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