First of all, I really love the story. It's heart-warming, fun, light and happy, and it made me laugh and cry very satisfactorily. *warm fuzzies* 
 But. And that's a huge "but." (Hehheh) This is so completely a mistorical. The characters sound (...think...are!) American, not British (and modern American at that, not historical). Realities of dress and undressing a woman, interactions between people be they mother and child, siblings, peers or of different classes... No. Just no. o_O It's best to turn off the historical-fact-storage part of the brain. (I still love the story, but the mistorical distractions pulled me out of it enough that I dropped one star from the five I originally gave it.)