Travelling Matchmaker · Book 3
Penelope Goes to Portsmouth
- Published
- 1 July 1991
- Pages
- 155
- ISBN-13
- 9780312059453
- Type
- novel

About this book
Penelope Goes to Portsmouth matches Belinda Goes to Bath's length at 155 pages, the third of Hannah's journeys as she nudges another couple's stalled romance toward a proper Regency ending in a new English city.
Its place in Travelling Matchmaker
Penelope Goes to Portsmouth is book 3 in the Travelling Matchmaker series. It follows Belinda Goes to Bath. It is followed by Beatrice Goes to Brighton. See the full Travelling Matchmaker reading order.
Hannah Pym is a middle-aged former housekeeper who inherits an unexpected fortune from her late employer and decides to spend it seeing England by stagecoach instead of settling into quiet retirement. In each of the six Travelling Matchmaker novels, Hannah's journey to a different English city brings her into contact with a young woman or couple whose romantic prospects have gone wrong — through family interference, misplaced pride, or plain bad luck — and Hannah, with her sharp eye for character and no patience…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312059453