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A Righted Wrong, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel
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Large F rench Windows opened on this stone expanse, and now, in the lazy sum mer day, the silken curtains were faintly.
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Large F rench Windows opened on this stone expanse, and now, in the lazy sum mer day, the silken curtains were faintly.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
298 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2015
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Edmund Hodgson Yates
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April 21, 2023
Twenty years after the sorrowful events of anxiously guarded secrets that led to deaths as described in volume II: the two orphaned daughters of Margaret and Fitzwilliam Baldwin grow up under the care of their uncle Major Carteret, James Dugdale (who by now must be recognized as a positive good character) and the Irish maidservant Rose Doran in the Scottish mansion of Deane. Robert Meredith is a frequent visitor there and he introduces his housemate and colleague George Ritherdon to the girls. Each of them falls for the afore mentioned gentlemen (though the age gap between Robert Meredith who is already flirting with Mrs Carteret before her wedding some twenty something years before and 20 year-old Eleanor Baldwin is hard to swallow).
Robert Meredith has plans of vengeance- he has hated Mrs Margaret even when she was living with them in Australia- and slowly, gets his reward: he causes estrangement between the sisters and marries the younger Baldwin. On his wedding day, Meredith reveals that the eldest daughter is illegitimate since her parents were not really married when she was born and her mother was still tied to her first husband. The heiress of the Deane is not the heiress and actual harm is done to the second daughter who was born within wedlock. (Eventually, it becomes clear what was causing so much frustration to the Baldwin parents, friends and relatives: the injustice for the legitimate daughter to lose the family inheritance in favor of the elder illegitimate sibling. I guess succession in family was taken much more seriously in Victorian Age than nowadays.)
The elder Gertrude seems to have lost everything until George Ritherdon comes into her way again, declares himself and offers for her. Two more deaths, one villain accordingly punished and the wrong is straightened.
The story is decent although it meanders considerably. The reader is unable to identify the protagonist- you initially think that it is Margaret Carteret but she dies before the end of the second volume- and what were her sufferings and why did she die. Fitzwilliam Baldwin is also summarily eliminated in the first chapter of the third volume, Dugdale’s role in the story is ambiguous until just before the death of Margaret, Major Carteret is a shadow of a hero and his wife is described unfavorably as a rather shallow flirt who is causing mischief without being actually punished.
Robert Meredith has plans of vengeance- he has hated Mrs Margaret even when she was living with them in Australia- and slowly, gets his reward: he causes estrangement between the sisters and marries the younger Baldwin. On his wedding day, Meredith reveals that the eldest daughter is illegitimate since her parents were not really married when she was born and her mother was still tied to her first husband. The heiress of the Deane is not the heiress and actual harm is done to the second daughter who was born within wedlock. (Eventually, it becomes clear what was causing so much frustration to the Baldwin parents, friends and relatives: the injustice for the legitimate daughter to lose the family inheritance in favor of the elder illegitimate sibling. I guess succession in family was taken much more seriously in Victorian Age than nowadays.)
The elder Gertrude seems to have lost everything until George Ritherdon comes into her way again, declares himself and offers for her. Two more deaths, one villain accordingly punished and the wrong is straightened.
The story is decent although it meanders considerably. The reader is unable to identify the protagonist- you initially think that it is Margaret Carteret but she dies before the end of the second volume- and what were her sufferings and why did she die. Fitzwilliam Baldwin is also summarily eliminated in the first chapter of the third volume, Dugdale’s role in the story is ambiguous until just before the death of Margaret, Major Carteret is a shadow of a hero and his wife is described unfavorably as a rather shallow flirt who is causing mischief without being actually punished.
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