Marriage

Ferrier writes with crisp, telling details and a knack for naming characters (Mrs. Wiseacre, Lady Dull). This reprint should delight modern fans of stories of manners much as it did readers two hundred years ago * Publishers Weekly *On the two hundredth anniversary of the first publication of Marriage, Edinburgh is reclaiming Susan Ferrier as the equal of Scottish greats in literature – Sir Walter Scott and Arthur Conan DoyleA forgotten literary heroine - the nineteenth-century Scottish novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier – Vanessa Thorpe * Guardian *

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782-1854) was a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. Her novels explored vivid accounts of Scottish life and presented sharp views on women’s education which remained popular throughout the nineteenth century.

She wrote Marriage, The Inheritance and Destiny, and was, in her day, more widely read than her contemporary Jane Austen. She died in 1854.