So you can see that Hattie has a lot to deal with when she becomes married to Mr. The rest of his life is built for him to make money so he has the chance to take him down. He never forgets where he came from and who the man was who took advantage of his mother. When he’s a young teen he becomes homeless and lives on the streets of London and talks his way into a shop keeper’s job, and his upward trajectory is started.

Her mother after being knocked up by the lord of the manor (who probably raped her) comes back to live in the coal mining town she is from, which is where Lucian starts his life. Lucian comes from a coal mining family background. Blackstone a peck on the lips, in front of a group of people no less, she is forced to accept his hand in marriage and despite her fascination with him she has a lot to learn about her husband and his intentions.

Her father has built his wealth but they are not in the higher levels of society and her marriage to a lord is of the utmost importance to help elevate her family’s station. Mind you, she’s smart enough to be taking classes at Oxford, but her inability to write things down without getting numbers and letters confused makes her father think she’s not bright. Because of her dyslexia she finds herself shuffled into the “pretty” catagory by her family and her intelligence is discounted. Hattie is the daughter of a banker in a family full of business minds. She ends up married to Lucian Blackstone. Blackstone enigmatic and interesting and she is drawn to him, but when she “leans in” to him to give him a kiss they are discovered and her actions prove to much for her father to overlook. However, when she ditches her guard to take a tour in the home of an unmarried gentleman, Lucian Blackstone, she starts the ball rolling in a direction she doesn’t intend. Hattie does have some form of independence as one in a class of female scholars at Oxford and her father gives her a little bit of freedom.

An organization that is hoping to overturn and reform women’s rights in their homes, as well as being given the right to vote. She, along with her friends, belong to the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Hattie Greenfield is a bluestocking, a woman who has thoughts about her independence and rights.

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