The Fudges in England

He began working on The Fudge Family In Italy, but abandoned it and it wasn't until seventeen years after the original that the sequel was released.

The sequel is set some years later, in a spa town likely to be Bath, where the grown-up Biddy has travelled.

Biddy has since become an evangelical Protestant, and because of the large inheritance she is expected to receive she is a target for fortune-hunting Irish suitors.

One of these is a "Mick on the make", Patrick Magan, who secretly prefers Biddy's niece Fanny.

Magan's attempts to woo Biddy are undermined by a rival, Mortimer O'Mulligan, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in the hope of enriching himself.