How long does it take to read Miss Dalrymple's Virtue?
Miss Dalrymple's Virtue by Margaret Westhaven takes about 4 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1988. 219 pages, about 60,225 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was an outrageous idea! The penniless Miss Sophia Dalrymple was an authoress, and a good one, but the problem of finding a publisher seemed insurmountable. For that one needed a wealthy patron. She and her clergyman father had tried many avenues, but to no avail. — To Sophia there appeared just one solution: sell the only thing she had of value in exchange for patronage: Her Virtue. And one day she did just that. She had not expected to be taken seriously, but to her horror the Marquis of Carrisbrooke did! Somehow she promised to become his mistress -- payment due the day her book was published. Surely, she prayed, as a man of honour he would not hold her to her bargain...
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
