![]() ![]() ![]() The rakish duke with a life of opulence would not have found Maddy the Quaker girl so appealing, and perhaps she would not have found him so sympathetic, if not for his stroke. It deals with two worlds that come together in tragedy. This story is very well written with meaningful dialog, richly drawn characters and an intricate plot. Having lost the power of speech and of understanding words, all but Maddy think him mad. And then in a duel, while not wounded, he suffers a stroke that sends him to a rest home for the mentally unstable, where he again encounters Maddy who is working there. A rake and reprobate at 32, who lives his life as he wants, he also has a charitable side that would found a university where he invites Maddy’s father to teach. It was through him, Maddy met “the mathematical duke,” Christian Langland, Duke of Jervaulx, for whom she has nothing but disdain. Named for the great mathematician, Archimedea Timms (“Maddy”) is, at 28, a Quaker spinster who lives with her blind father helping him with his equations. It also involves the mind of a Quaker woman dealing with her growing feelings for a man she would otherwise find reprehensible. ![]() ![]() Set in the late 1820s, it deals with the subject of physical malady leading to apparent (but not real) madness and the recovery that gradually restored sense and communication. Published in 1992, this historical romance moved the genre forward in a way others had not. ![]()
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