How long does it take to read The Famous Heroine?
The Famous Heroine by Mary Balogh takes about 4 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 4 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 222 pages, about 61,050 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water in that sophisticated world. But when she saved a highborn lady's poodles from disaster, she became the belle of every ball. Cora had never met a man like the exquisitely elegant, unabashedly blue-blooded Lord Francis Kneller. But when they found themselves in a position too compromising to conceal, nothing could save her from a marriage to a man who would surely disdain her as a wife. Nothing could save her then from the threat of heartbreak -- nothing, perhaps, except a most unlikely love....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Social life and customs, Women heroes, fiction, Aristocracy (Social class), fiction, Mate selection, fiction, Fiction
