School for Manners · Book 5

Animating Maria

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 1990
Pages
169
ISBN-13
9780745156293
Type
novel

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Cover of Animating Maria

About this book

Animating Maria arrived in 1990 as the fifth book, running 169 pages, following another of the debt-ridden Vicar Armitage's children through School for Manners' comic makeover-and-romance formula.

Its place in School for Manners

Animating Maria is book 5 in the School for Manners series. It follows Finessing Clarissa. It is followed by Marrying Harriet. See the full School for Manners reading order.

The six School for Manners novels follow the children of the disgraced, debt-ridden Vicar Armitage of Cherworth, each one packed off in turn to be transformed from awkward, rough-mannered country obscurity into a marriageable Regency lady or gentleman. Beginning with Refining Felicity , in which the eldest daughter is sent to her aunt in Yorkshire for a crash course in polish and poise, the series works through the Armitage siblings one by one — Fiona, Delilah, Clarissa, Maria and Harriet — each novel pairing the…

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