Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Richard Wilson and Thomas Gainsborough. A country beauty goes up to London for a season with a plan, a maid and no money, and finds the town is playing the same game with better cards. Frances Aymar Mathews wrote light comedies of the eighteenth century for an American audience that loved them. The disguises are conventional and the dialogue is quick enough to carry them. Fifty paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, among others, follow the century's look from country houses and castles to portraits and landscapes.

Frances Aymar Mathews was an American playwright and novelist of the 1890s and 1900s, at home in the costume romance and in the one-act comedies that amateur companies performed all over the country.