TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowley,Hannah
TI  - The Belle's Stratagem
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Comedy plays
KW  - Man-woman relationships -- Drama
KW  - Married people -- Drama
KW  - London (England) -- Drama
KW  - English drama -- 18th century
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belle%27s_Stratagem; Release date is 2014-12-08; E-text prepared by Delphine Lettau and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Belle's Stratagem" by Hannah Cowley is a romantic comedy written in 1780. When Letitia Hardy discovers her childhood betrothed Doricourt seems unmoved by her charms, she devises a bold deception to win his passionate devotion rather than settle for a loveless marriage. Meanwhile, newlyweds Sir George and Lady Frances Touchwood navigate jealousy and the corrupting influence of fashionable London society. Both plotlines converge at a climactic masquerade ball where wit, virtue, and romantic love challenge the era's social conventions about marriage and women's roles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47604
ER  -