![]() ![]() Phoebe is struck by the parallels between the real Sylvester and the arrogant parody of him in a book which she has written and which is about to be published. Phoebe meets Lady Ianthe, the silly widow of Sylvester's twin brother, who is convinced that Sylvester is evil because he is executing his brother's will exactly: her young son, Edmund, must live with Sylvester at the family home of Chance. Phoebe is unaware that Lady Ingham is the person who suggested Sylvester marry her. Terrified of being made to marry Sylvester and getting no sympathy from her father, Phoebe calls upon a childhood friend, Tom Orde, to help her run away to live with her grandmother, Lady Ingham, in London. He departs for a hunt in the countryside and meets Phoebe and her father. He travels to London to discuss the matter with his godmother, Lady Ingham, who tells him of her granddaughter, Phoebe. Sylvester, the wealthy Duke of Salford, is considering marriage. The book features gentle mockery of the Gothic novel genre and also features Heyer's characteristic strong heroine, with a desire for independence (in Phoebe's case, as a writer), who marries on her own terms. First published by Heinemann, London and Putnam, New York in 1957, it is the story of intelligent and desperate Phoebe who ends up marrying the man she has run away from home to avoid, and whom she has caricatured as the villain in her novel. Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. ![]()
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