A thrilling tale of romance and love, suspense and deceit.
Innocent young Countess Mirelle is abruptly orphaned, and her father’s will arranges for her to be “protected” by her nearest relations in England — the Trampleasures. But these are not the sort of folk whom she or her father would have wanted to look to her small fortune. Captain John Herring is determined to protect Mirelle, and sets out to be her guardian angel.
By turns amusing, delightful and shocking, this is a brilliant story of scam artists, bankruptcy, and the nasty, petty viciousnesses which the “gentle” middle classes could use against each other. But it’s more than just a story of middle-class and snobbery: Baring-Gould had a clear understanding of the people, […] the natural weaknesses, the greed, and the devastating reality of bankruptcy in Victorian England.
(— writerlywitterings.com)
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The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an Anglican priest, antiquarian and folklorist, novelist, and eclectic scholar. One of the most prolific and popular writers of the late-Victorian period, he wrote more than 150 books and contributed countless magazine articles. His folkloric studies resulted in
The Book of Were-Wolves (1865), one of the most frequently cited studies of lycanthropy; followed by numerous volumes on other arcane subjects. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”
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This novel was first published in 1883. Cover illustration from 1892 edition.
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