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Leisure, Dec 2001, 5.99, 378 pp.
ISBN: 0843949449
In 1875 County Galway, Ireland, Callie O'Doule lives at home with her widowed father and earns chump change toiling as a laundress mostly for the Connemara old squire Kevin Callahan as she has since she turned thirteen. However, Callie worries about making legitimate money ever since the squire died six weeks ago. American Trent Lanigan, handling the estate of the old squire, hits Callie with a broadside when he tells her that she is Callahan's daughter rather than the child of her beloved “Da” and will inherit a fortune once he teaches her how to act like a lady.
Trent hid one stipulation of the will from Callie. She must marry his choice of a spouse. However, Trent falls in love with his Pygmalion even as Callie becomes the toast of the season. Callie loves her Professor Higgins even if he tries to dampen anything between them. He knows she must marry someone else or lose everything.
LANIGAN'S LADY is an Irish equivalent of My Fair Lady with the prime difference being Callie starts much closer to being a lady than the Cockney Eliza. The story line is fun though one twist too many will leave the audience wondering why. Still the characters entertain the readers with a special battle of the sexes that never eases up until Trent and Callie must decide whether she should be LANIGAN'S LADY. Sonya Birmingham takes quite a risk updating a tale that has twice become a classic story, but does a fine job so that even GBS would join in the accolades.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- 19th century
Seduction/coercion/force
Yes
Matchmake, (will/family)
Yes
Matchmaker...
- forced together for inheritance
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- lawyer creature
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- servant
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Ireland
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
What % of story is romance related?
- 70%
Focus of story
- equally on him and her
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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