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What if following your heart means defying a world that measures your worth by your fortune?
In Her Own Right by John Reed Scott brings romance and adventure into an Edwardian world ruled by money and manners. Inheritance shapes marriage, and family expectations narrow the path ahead. At its center stands a heroine whose claim to a place of her own gives the love story its force.
Buried treasure adds the promise of hidden wealth to the struggle between affection and social rank. A fortune offers a goal, but also secrets, rivals and reasons to venture into unfamiliar places. Love must contend with family, money and chance, while the heroine's independence raises a question: who gets to decide her future?
What you’ll discover
- A heroine standing firm Meet a central woman whose claim to her own place challenges the expectations around her.
- The lure of treasure Follow a quest for hidden wealth that draws adventure into the heart of the romance.
- Money behind the manners Enter a world where inheritance and social position weigh heavily on matters of love.
- Affection against expectation Discover a love story shaped by the competing claims of family, fortune and the heart.
- A future to claim Explore what independence means when a young woman's choices depend so much on others.
Who will love it
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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- Losing money threatens Croyden's whole life
- Clarendon offers a place to belong
- A hidden letter changes his retreat
- The treasure draws thieves into pursuit
- An empty search leaves danger behind
- The hunt puts love in danger
- Pride makes wealth a romantic barrier
- Character matters beyond a bank balance
- A second chance means reconsidering worth
Who’s who
- Geoffrey CroydenA ruined clubman who retreats to Clarendon, finds a pirate's letter and struggles with his pride about marrying a rich woman.
- Colin MacloudCroyden's dry, loyal friend who joins the treasure hunt, funds it and falls for the girl he calls the Symphony in Blue.
- Elaine CavendishA rich and quick-witted heiress who loves Croyden and is determined to overcome his scruples about money.
- Davila CarringtonA teasing, dark-haired Hampton girl who guides Croyden to Clarendon and becomes Elaine's friend and Macloud's puzzle.
- Captain CarringtonDavila's genial father, an old Hampton gentleman of modest means who welcomes Croyden into the town.
- MosesColonel Duval's old servant who guards Clarendon faithfully and tries to teach its new master the local ways.
- Miss Amelia ErskineA self-important lecturer on every subject whose pompous manner makes her the comic nuisance of Hampton.
- Montecute MattisonA spiteful rich man's son who sneers at Croyden's losses and is despised by the men of the club.
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In Her Own Right
by John Reed Scott · 1911
A ruined clubman finds a pirate's letter in a secret drawer and sets out to dig up a fortune in jewels.
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“Pirate gold breeds pirate ways!”
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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.
In Her Own Right at a glance
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- About 4 h 35 min3 h 35 min fast, 5 h 25 min slow
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- 65,200 words
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- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1911by John Reed Scott
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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.
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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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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.
The author
John Reed Scott
1869–1942 · American novelist
John Reed Scott was an American novelist who lived from 1869 to 1942. He wrote fiction in the early twentieth century. His books include The Colonel of the Red Huzzars, published in 1906, and In Her Own Right, published in 1911.
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