Chapter 24: The Doves Sate Upon the Window-Ledge and Lowly Cooed and Cooed A confession. Cue the tears.By Karen Wang

Chapter 23: In One Who Will Do Justice, and Demands That It Shall Be Done to Each Thing He Has Made, By Each Who Bears His Image Sir Jeoffrey comes to his end.By Karen Wang

Chapter 22: Mother Anne Anne finally lives her best life.By Karen Wang

Chapter 21: An Heir Is Born Clorinda sets out to right the wrongs of her past and is blessed with a child.By Karen Wang

Chapter 20: A Noble Marriage Clorinda attempts piety and learns what it means to "be a woman."By Karen Wang

Chapter 19: A Piteous Story Is Told and the Old Cellars Walled In Clorinda's clean getaway hits a bit of a snag.By Karen Wang

Chapter 18: My Lady Dunstanwolde Sits Late Alone and Writes Perhaps Lady Anne knows more than she lets on.By Karen Wang

Chapter 17: Wherein His Grace of Osmonde’s Courier Arrives from France That "thing" which Clorinda recently took care of continues to taunt her.By Karen Wang

Chapter 16: Dealing with That Which Was Done In the Panelled Parlour Clorinda strives desperately to keep her secret hidden... and ends up with another secret.By Karen Wang

Chapter 15: In Which Sir John Oxon Finds Again a Trophy He Had Lost The Lady on her Devil once again meets the Devil. And rides to her doom.By Karen Wang

Chapter 14: Containing the History of the Breaking of the Horse Devil, and Relates the Returning of His Grace of Osmonde from France Finally. The romantic payoff we've all been waiting for.By Karen Wang

"Wherein a Deadly War Begins" Clorinda learns what it means to be a woman while living in a culture of toxic masculinity.By Karen Wang

Chapter 12: Which Treats of the Obsequies of My Lord of Dunstanwolde, of His Lady’s Widowhood, and of Her Return to Town Clorinda shows her softer side... but eventually returns to form.By Karen Wang

Chapter 11: Wherein a noble life comes to an end Just as Clorinda seems to have settled into her new life as a great noblewoman and wife, things once again take an unexpected turn.By Karen Wang

Chapter 10: "Yes-- I Have Marked Him" Clorinda, the Duke of Osmonde, and Sir John all realize some hard truths.By Karen Wang

Chapter 9: “I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul—myself” Forsaking what could have been, Clorinda fully embraces her new identity as the Countess of Dunstanwolde. But not without a last-minute hiccup.By Karen Wang

Chapter 8: Two Meet In the Deserted Rose Garden, and the Old Earl of Dunstanwolde is Made a Happy Man While everyone in her orbit continues to agonize over her every capricious whim, Clorinda finds herself blindsided by her encounter with a soon-to-be relation.By Karen Wang

Chapter 7: 'Twas the Face of Sir John Oxon the Moon Shone Upon Giddy at the thought of Clorinda one day marrying and siring an heir with the beguiling Sir John, Anne discovers her would-be brother-in-law in a compromised position.By Karen Wang

Chapter 6: Relating How Mistress Anne Discovered a Miniature Always a soft-hearted sister to muddle things up in these affairs, eh?By Karen Wang

“Not I,” said she. “There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out." Clorinda transforms from her shire's greatest scandal into its greatest toast.By Karen Wang

Chapter 4: Lord Twemlow's Chaplain Visits His Patron's Kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda Shines On Her Birthday Night Convinced she will never find a husband unless she stops dressing in boys' clothes, Clorinda vows to give it up. To a young suitor's great chagrin.By Karen Wang

Chapter 3: Wherein Sir Jeoffry’s Boon Companions Drink a Toast Suddenly infatuated with his newly discovered daughter, Sir Jeoffrey gains a new drinking buddy. It's as creepy as it sounds.By Karen Wang

Chapter 2: In Which Sir Geoffrey Encounters His Offspring Having not lain eyes upon his youngest surviving daughter in several years, Sir Geoffrey comes upon Mistress Clorinda in an unexpected moment. Or, in modern day parlance, "You *are* the father!"By Karen Wang

While Frances Hodgson Burnett is best known today for her children's novels, Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden, she was actually a well-established author of short stories and romantic novels for adults well before she ever dipped her toes into the children's literature genre. In this inaugural episode of the podcast,…