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This book suits readers who enjoy buried treasure, mysterious letters and clever banter, and anyone who likes a love story set in a small Southern town.
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Would you spend your last dollars hunting a pirate's gold? Geoffrey Croyden, a polished clubman from the big city of Northumberland, loses nearly everything when the brokers Royster and Axtell collapse. He slips away to a sleepy Maryland town, and in a hidden desk drawer he finds a letter nearly two centuries old that points to a fortune in jewels.
In Her Own Right is an Edwardian romance by John Reed Scott. It blends a treasure hunt, crafty thieves, old Southern manners and two courtships. What does a proud man owe his pride when the woman he loves has far more money than he does?
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- 1A bankruptcy sends Croyden into hidingFree
- 2Clarendon gives him a past and a household
- 3A pirate's letter points to buried jewels
- 4Hampton's old manners and Davila's bright eyes
- 5Annapolis, stolen wallets and a captured pair
- 6The search fails but the blackmail begins
- 7Elaine arrives and both women vanish
- 8Pride about money keeps love at arm's length
- 9Real worth comes from birth and character
- 10A light touch keeps the adventure bright
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A bankruptcy sends Croyden into hiding
The book opens on the porch of a golf club above Northumberland. Colin Macloud reads in the paper that the brokers Royster and Axtell have failed, with debts of twenty million dollars. Geoffrey Croyden is not so lucky as his friends.
Upstairs, Croyden tells Macloud the sad arithmetic. His father left him about half a million dollars, and a company investment and a loan swallowed four hundred thousand of it. Only twenty thousand is left, an income of twelve hundred a year. He decides to vanish to a small property he owns on the Eastern Shore.
Macloud, the one friend who rings true, says the crowd on the Heights drops anyone who loses money. Dinner at the Cavendish house proves him right. The sharpest pain is Elaine Cavendish, rich in her own right. Croyden thanks heaven he never proposed, and he says goodbye with a kiss on her hand.
Losing money costs Croyden his club, his friends and, he believes, his right to love.
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Questions about De son propre chef
What is In Her Own Right about?
It follows Geoffrey Croyden, a clubman ruined by a brokers' collapse, who moves to Hampton, Maryland, finds a pirate's letter in a secret drawer and hunts for buried jewels while a romance with Elaine Cavendish develops.
Who was Robert Parmenter in the book?
Parmenter is the dying pirate who wrote the 1738 letter. He buried a treasure near Annapolis in 1720 and left it to his friend Marmaduke Duval on condition that it be used only in an extremity of need.
Is Greenberry Point a real place?
Yes, Greenberry Point lies across the Severn River from Annapolis, Maryland, and the novel uses real landmarks such as Carvel Hall and the Naval Academy. The treasure, the letter and the characters are fiction.
What does the phrase pirate gold breeds pirate ways mean?
It is a refrain in the story warning that wealth taken by crime attracts crime in turn. Characters repeat it as thieves, blackmailers and kidnappers chase Parmenter's fortune.
Is In Her Own Right easy to read?
It is approachable, with short chapters, brisk dialogue and a clear plot built on letters and clues. The humor and the romance keep the story moving from the first scene on the club porch.
Cite this edition
Scott, John Reed. In Her Own Right. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/in-her-own-right.
Scott, J. R. (2026). In her own right. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/in-her-own-right (Original work published 1911)
Scott, John Reed. In Her Own Right. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/in-her-own-right.
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author = {Scott, John Reed},
title = {In Her Own Right},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1911}
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