The Hathaways series

Written and completed between 2007 and 2010, the series was later published in 2010 by Macmillan publishers.{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/books/97814668459693/thehathawayscompleteseries|title=The Hathaways complete series|access-date=9 April 2025|website=us.macmillan.com}}

The series features 10 main characters: Leo (Lord Ramsay), Amelia, Win, Poppy, Beatrix, Cam, Merippen, Mr. Rutledge, Miss Marks (née Wigens), and Captain Phelan, who come to be related to each other by blood or marriage and form the Hathaway family.{{cite web|url=http://goodreads.com/book/show/18111194-the-hathaways-complete-series|title=The Hathaways complete series|date=9 April 2025|website=goodreads.com}}

The series is set mostly in Victorian England but also goes back to the Regency era.

Spanning a period of over 20 years, the series systematically covers the childhoods of most of its main characters (which is sometimes shown as the reason for some of their actions) down till the present, and some dark periods in their past.

In general, although being a part of the English and Irish nobilities, and possessing a lot of wealth, the family is generally considered socially different, and sometimes even outcast, by most members of society due to the lack of adherance to the laws of etiquette; generally not keeping to the laws governing the english social settings and hierarchies at the time.{{cite web|url=http://pooledink.com/2019/11/13/the-hathaways-series|title=The Hathaways series|date=13 November 2019|access-date=9 April 2025|website=pooledink.com}}

The Hathaways series is a sequel series to Kleypas' Wallflower series, and prequel to The Ravenels series.{{cite web|url=http://lisa-kleypas.freenovelread.com|title=Lisa Kleypas' author's profile at freenovelread|access-date=9 April 2025|website=freenovelread.com}}{{cite web|url=http://fantasticfiction.com/k/lisa-kleypas|title=Lisa Kleypas at fantasticfiction|access-date=9 April 2025|website=fantasticfiction.com}}

Each of the books in the series highlights how each of the 5 Hathaway siblings, starting with Amelia and ending with Beatrix, get married to their spouses, and also portrays different circumstance and people that they had to overcome to be with their true love.{{cite web|url=http://fantasticfiction.com/k/lisa-kleypas/hathaways|title=Lisa Kleypas' Hathaways|access-date=9 April 2025|website=fantasticfiction.com}}

The series has been praised by its readers due to the author drawing out and defining the character of each book's main characters.{{cite web|url=http://bookbinge.com/reviews/series/the-hathaways|title=The Hathaways series review|access-date=9 April 2025|website=bookbinge.com}}{{cite web|url=http://wordsaboutwords.com/2023/02/11/series-reviews-the-hathaways-by-lisa-kleypas|title=The Hathaways series review|date=11 February 2023|access-date=9 April 2025|website=wordsaboutwords.com}}{{cite web|url=http://lilisblissfulpages.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/the-hathaways-by-lisa-kleypas-series-review-2|title=The Hathaways series review|date=9 September 2018|access-date=9 April 2025|website=lilisblissfulpages.wordpress.com}}

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