He’s gruff and unwelcoming and taken aback by her arrival, and she’s tired, talkative, and unimpressed by his lack of hospitality. She shows up unexpected on Phillip’s doorstep, and the two do not suit at all at first glance. Finally, Phillip suggests that she come to his country estate for a visit to see if they might suit one another for marriage.Įloise being Eloise, rather than accepting the invitation and traveling with her mother’s permission and a suitable chaperone, decides to just go, and sneaks off while her family is busy at a soiree so she won’t be missed right away. After sending Sir Phillip a note of condolence after Marina’s death, the two have continued to write and to get to know one another via letters. She hadn’t minded her spinster status so long as she had her best friend Penelope to keep her company, but now that Penelope has gotten married, Eloise suddenly isn’t so content any more.Īs the story opens, we learn that Eloise has been in correspondence for a year with a man named Sir Phillip Crane, the widower of her deceased 4th cousin Marina. In book #5, many years have passed since we first met Eloise. TV Eloise is awesome - independent, outspoken, intelligent, and not too wound up in societal niceties.
Since watching Bridgerton on Netflix, I’ve had a soft spot for Eloise - that’s the letter E, which makes Eloise the 5th Bridgerton child and the 2nd girl in this large family. They’re sweet, light, and easy, but never fail to entertain. And he certainly should have mentioned that he had two young – and decidedly unruly – children, as much in need of a mother as Phillip is in need of a wife.īridgerton books have become my go-to comfort reads, and an absolute must for long plane trips.
Her perfect husband wouldn’t be so moody and ill-mannered. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her…Įloise Bridgerton couldn’t marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking… and wondering… and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match.
Sir Phillip knew from his correspondence with his dead wife’s distant cousin that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he’d proposed, figuring that she’d be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage.
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