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Shell Crawley

Shell Crawley

Irish historical fiction author and primary school teacher; wrote #1 Amazon Ireland bestseller 'Lady Dixon's Niece' (Of Social Standing series).

Jul 30, 2026

4:21
So it's all around that kind of idea as well.
4:24
Yeah, it's got real Bridgerton vibes, high stakes drama with the social nuance of what you expect from Jane Austen and things like that.
4:31
And again, it's a fake it till you make it story.
4:33
It's about a young girl named Annalise Smith.
4:35
who has kind of grown up in a peculiar situation her father was a gentleman but they've lost all their money but he's still instilled kind of getting a private tutor teaching her how to dance but she's she's grown up in an agrarian society where she's not mixing with people of that class social class at all so she feels like it's a bit of a waste she's been educated quite well and she has nowhere now to kind of use this education and now she's kind of getting to the age 18 coming up on 18 that she's going to be married off to a farmer and she's like is this is this it you know and she's like I've put in all this education and time I want to kind of use it so she is aspiring to have social mobility and she hatches a plan to contact a a relation, an aunt that is estranged from her father.
5:23
And she doesn't really know the reasons why that is, but she contacts her through correspondence and her aunt invites her to stay with her in Hertfordshire.
5:32
And her aunt has done quite well.
7:57
But you might tell us about that.

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