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Tragedy of an English officer retired to Victoria who lives in seclusion with his sister. The local doctor is finally consulted when she has a fit of insanity and discovers the cause is the brutal breach of their engagement by her fiancee and his subsequent execution by her brother in a duel. Touching (and a little disturbing) portrait of brotherly/sisterly love. (PB)
A dutiful daughter promises to marry a rich friend of her father's to save him from ruin and suicide, sacrificing her true love. The old man learns of her nobility and swaps grooms at the altar. Slight. (PB)
English romance of nobility. An impoverished handsome nobleman is convinced to win an heiress to retrieve his fortunes. He visits Lady Derwentwater's country house, openly avowing his attentions, and wins the love of his lady Maud Reading against her scornful intentions. Only when it appears that she too has lost her fortune is his true love revealed. Dashing passionate country house romance - formulaic but effective. (PB)
Exemplary tale of plain but beautiful souled Jane whose humble self-denial teaches Maggie Milton that there is more than vanity and selfishness. (Sewing is the main occupation!) (PB)
A penniless English emigrant seeking work accepts a position as child's companion on a Victorian country station. On her arrival she finds the housekeeper full of citterness to her employer, the Captain, and his apparently mentally impaired daughter. The housekeeper's real identity, her madness and her terrible revenge through explosion and fire on the captain and his daughter are vividly portrayed. (PB)
An old man advises his nephew to marry and cites his own petty tyranny which broke the spirit of his first wife as an example not to be followed. Preacherly. (PB)
A trapper in far west USA recalls his youthful love for Lucy Waterman on a Tennessee plantation, and the duel in which he killed a rival. Rough western romance. (PB)