How long does it take to read The Duchess of Vidal?
The Duchess of Vidal by Dawn Lindsey takes about 4 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1978. 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
French emigre Dominique Le Foret has taken on an assumed name as she sets out to take up a position as a governess, but finds herself marooned at an inn when her new employer does not appear to meet her. When a dashing nobleman offers her a ride to the next town in his carriage, she feels obliged to accept. However, the pair suffer an accident and must spend the night together in an abandoned cottage. When they are rescued the following day, he realizes that she has been hopelessly compromised by being alone with him for so long, and decides to do the honorable thing and offer her marriage. She is not sure she wants to marry the haughty lord, who turns out to be a duke no less, but finally agrees to a marriage of convenience. As the couple start to develop warmer feelings for each other though, the secrets in her past become an obstacle to their happiness.
Subjects: marriage of convenience, evil relative
