Coelebs in Search of a Wife

Coelebs in Search of a Wife is a novel by Hannah More. It was followed by Coelebs Married. In Coelebs in Search of a Wife More introduces us to a wealthy twenty-three-year-old bachelor who styles himself Coelebs (unmarried) but is seeking a wife. After the death of his father he leaves the north of England to London where he encounters a fashionable array of eager mothers and daughters before he visits the Hampshire home of his fathers friend Mr. Stanley. Stanleys daughter Lucilla is both an intellectual and a domestic woman and Coelebs ideal partner. Coelebs in Search of a Wife is a novel about the meeting of these two minds More shows the ways in which a couple becomes truly matched as opposed to merely joined.