A Nineteenth-Century Maid's Diary

Lucy thought her life would be spent working her way up from maid to lady's maid, while writing in her spare time and publishing a novel. She would earn enough to cover decades of wages, then finally escape a life of working more than ten hours a day.

Maybe, if things went even better, she could keep drawing, singing, playing the piano, and dancing, doing what she loved and becoming an artist who earned a little money, at least enough to live comfortably.

The only thing she couldn't explain was how she knew so many things, yet had no idea who she was and no memories of her life before.

Until those people appeared. They were either old friends or former lovers.

They claimed she was the Duchess of Dorset, who had disappeared eight years ago.

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It was the eighth year since she vanished. They had spent all eight years as widowers.

Until they saw her.

The Duchess of Dorset had gone from an orphan to a duchess.

After her duke husband died, she became a widow. A year later, she suddenly passed away, leaving behind an "illegitimate child."

Viscount Russell came forward to claim the child, producing a document that said they had married in France.

He never remarried and treated the child as his heir.

And what happened?

The older the child got, the more he resembled the man Viscount Russell hated most, Lord Henry.

Was that why the two men became enemies?

No, that had begun many years earlier.

The heroine transmigrated into another body eight years ago and disappeared. She transmigrated back in the same way, but had lost her memories.

She will regain her memories later.

The heroine is still 21 when she returns. The first male lead is 28, and the second male lead is 31.

The ending is 1v2.

The heroine has a child with her former husband. Read with caution.

All the men are virgins.

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What's it like to transmigrate to the Regency era a century ago?

Beauty buffs maxed out: blonde hair, blue eyes, and stunning looks.

She's also rich, with a dowry of fifty thousand pounds, so she never has to worry about food or drink.

She's upper class, the adopted daughter of a wealthy and influential country squire.

She's the center of attention, attending all kinds of balls and dinner parties. Everyone loves her during London's social season.

She mingles with aristocrats and landed gentry. She got lucky and became one of the tiny one percent of British society.

She has everything, but she's too bored.

So why not have a few more romances?

When she gets tired of that, she'll build a career and work on making money and a name for herself.

From a young countess who transmigrated to the early nineteenth century

She just seems to have attracted a few too many men by accident.

An old flame whose engagement she broke off has returned from the battlefield, watching her like a hawk.

She also once broke the heart of a beautiful black-haired, green-eyed young man.

A playboy who takes love lightly is always at her side.

A gloomy, pale young duke is infatuated with her.

Someone even named a newly discovered star after her.

Wealth? Status?

The two things marriage in this era is built on are both taken care of.

But she doesn't really want either.

Even love doesn't seem enough to make her marry.

"All I've ever wanted is to find someone who can walk beside me as an equal."

Note: A Regency-era Mary Sue story, written with character types inspired by the protagonists of Jane Austen's novels.

The heroine is a countess who transmigrated from the Edwardian era a century in the future.

The heroine has had former lovers. All the men are virgins. The romances are one-on-one at a time.

A crossover with Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma, A Room with a View, Howards End, and more.

Theme: Keep striving upward