https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Merely_Married 2026-04-04T18:35:27Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.34.2 https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Merely_Married&diff=146056&oldid=prev 2021-07-09T02:26:29Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:26, 9 July 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1998 Releases]] [[Category:Marriage of Convenience]] [[Category:Regency]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:1998 Releases]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Marriage of Convenience]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Category:Historical Romance]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Regency]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]</div></td></tr> </table>

DianeKPeterson https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Merely_Married&diff=144266&oldid=prev 2021-06-28T18:16:39Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:16, 28 June 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11" >Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Awards ==  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Awards ==  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[1999 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">RITA</del>&amp;<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reg; Winners</del>|1999 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">RITA&amp;reg;</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the </del>[[RITA®: <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Best Short </del>Historical Romance|Short Historical]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">category.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[1999 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">RITA® Winners </ins>&amp; <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Finalists</ins>|1999 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">RITA®</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for </ins>[[RITA®: Historical Romance <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Categories</ins>|Short Historical <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Romance</ins>]]</div></td></tr> </table>

DianeKPeterson https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Merely_Married&diff=72568&oldid=prev 2008-09-04T15:06:17Z

<p>description</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:06, 4 September 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6" >Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Amazon Listing''' - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055357521X/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 Merely Married]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Amazon Listing''' - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055357521X/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 Merely Married]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Adrian Devereau, Duke of Raven, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">drunk </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">desperate, encounters </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">deathly ill young </del>woman<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seizing upon </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">suggestion </del>of a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">friend</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">decides </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">marry the woman -- figuring he</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ll be </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">widower before </del>she <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">realizes what's happened</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Things don't work out the way Raven plans, and </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bride survives</del>. Leah <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Stretton, now recovered, takes advantage of her </del>new <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">station in society </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">enact a few schemes of </del>her <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">own</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Before </del>she<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'ll walk away from the marriage</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Raven name will </del>be <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">used to secure a good husband for her younger sister</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Life for </ins>Adrian Devereau, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the sixth </ins>Duke of Raven, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was flawless, but for one nagging detail. Try as he did to live down to his reputation as the Wicked Lord Raven, the ladies persisted in viewing him as desirable husband material. So he conceived a bold solution to foil them once </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for all - he would marry </ins>a woman <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on her deathbed </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">adopt </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">role </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">grieving widower. He even found </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">most suitable wife: Leah Stretton</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">overtaken by a sudden illness while journeying </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">London. But with Leah</ins>'<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s &quot;miraculous&quot; recovery, Adrian found himself properly wedded to </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">beauty as headstrong as </ins>she <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was healthy</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Now </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">only chance at freedom was playing her game</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">More adept at writing about romance and adventure than living it, </ins>Leah <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">could not permit a </ins>new <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">family scandal </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ruin </ins>her <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sister's launch into society</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">If Adrian played her devoted husband, </ins>she <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">would grant him an annulment later. There was only one rule: neither of them could fall in love. Of course</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rules were made to </ins>be <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">broken</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raven is a dark, debauched hero, and [[Patricia Coughlin]] has fun with her characters as they try to achieve their goals while extricating themselves from a marriage neither wanted. Coughlin does not shy away from making her hero self-centered and arrogant.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Raven is a dark, debauched hero, and [[Patricia Coughlin]] has fun with her characters as they try to achieve their goals while extricating themselves from a marriage neither wanted. Coughlin does not shy away from making her hero self-centered and arrogant.</div></td></tr> </table>

Sweety1746 https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Merely_Married&diff=15853&oldid=prev 2007-01-21T01:17:58Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:17, 21 January 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1998 Releases]] [[Category:Marriage<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-Of-</del>Convenience]] [[Category:Regency]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1998 Releases]] [[Category:Marriage <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of </ins>Convenience]] [[Category:Regency]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Romancewiki https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Merely_Married&diff=15832&oldid=prev 2007-01-21T01:01:00Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:01, 21 January 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1998 Releases]] [[Category:Marriage-Of-Convenience]] [[Category:<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Historical - </del>Regency]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1998 Releases]] [[Category:Marriage-Of-Convenience]] [[Category:Regency]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Romancewiki https://romancewiki.bham.ac.uk//index.php?title=Merely_Married&diff=6433&oldid=prev 2006-04-21T00:02:00Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:RITA Winning Title]] [[Category:1998 Releases]] [[Category:Marriage-Of-Convenience]] [[Category:Historical - Regency]]<br /> * '''Author''': [[Patricia Coughlin]]<br /> * '''Publisher''': [[Bantam]]<br /> * '''Year''': 1998<br /> * '''Setting''': England<br /> * '''Amazon Listing''' - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055357521X/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 Merely Married]<br /> <br /> Adrian Devereau, Duke of Raven, drunk and desperate, encounters a deathly ill young woman, and seizing upon the suggestion of a friend, decides to marry the woman -- figuring he'll be a widower before she realizes what's happened. Things don't work out the way Raven plans, and his bride survives. Leah Stretton, now recovered, takes advantage of her new station in society to enact a few schemes of her own. Before she'll walk away from the marriage, the Raven name will be used to secure a good husband for her younger sister.<br /> <br /> Raven is a dark, debauched hero, and [[Patricia Coughlin]] has fun with her characters as they try to achieve their goals while extricating themselves from a marriage neither wanted. Coughlin does not shy away from making her hero self-centered and arrogant.<br /> <br /> == Awards == <br /> * [[1999 RITA&amp;reg; Winners|1999 RITA&amp;reg;]] in the [[RITA®: Best Short Historical Romance|Short Historical]] category.</div>

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