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A review by ssejig
Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
3.0
I got this book for free from Google Books after reading about it on Smart Bitches and was mostly quite charmed by it (though it did take me a LONG time to read, especially on Overdrive and their persistent use of percentages rather than page numbers, what's the point of that, I might ask? I finally switched over to Aldiko and was so much happier). Unfortunately, this book is a product of its times and super racist.
Anyway, Miss Lois Cayley is about to be kicked out of school and has very little money to her name. So she sets off on a grand adventure, hoping to work her way around the world. She immediately finds work as a companion for an old, crotchety woman and thwarts the robbery of the woman's jewels. Then she meets the woman's nephew. In a regular romance, this would've been the end of the story, resulting in marriage. In this book, Miss Cayley decides that a)she still wants adventure and b)she doesn't want him to be disinherited (he wouldn't mind and she doesn't want the money but she also doesn't want it to be a bone of contention with them later).
Along the way, Lois sells bicycles and typewriters. She sends for her friend Elsie who had been ill and they set off for a year in Italy and then in to Egypt.
Anyway, Miss Lois Cayley is about to be kicked out of school and has very little money to her name. So she sets off on a grand adventure, hoping to work her way around the world. She immediately finds work as a companion for an old, crotchety woman and thwarts the robbery of the woman's jewels. Then she meets the woman's nephew. In a regular romance, this would've been the end of the story, resulting in marriage. In this book, Miss Cayley decides that a)she still wants adventure and b)she doesn't want him to be disinherited (he wouldn't mind and she doesn't want the money but she also doesn't want it to be a bone of contention with them later).
Along the way, Lois sells bicycles and typewriters. She sends for her friend Elsie who had been ill and they set off for a year in Italy and then in to Egypt.