I read this obsessively as a teenager -- first discovered it because the author's last name, Fitzgerald, put her on the library shelf next to F. Scott, who I was also reading at the time. So I decided to pick it up again now that I've gotten back into reading historical romance, to see how it stacks up.
A well-researched, well-written romance set in mid-Victorian London. An interesting panoply of characters, too. If only the two protagonists had been more fully developed...