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3) The upstart
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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Description
The Upstart is a new historical novel from Catherine Cookson set amidst the roiling social currents of rural England at the turn of the century. Risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, a shrewd and newly monied manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes, and clogs, has decided that his new station in life deserves a more imposing residence. When a thirty-four-room mansion on the outskirts of Fellburn becomes available, he snaps up the estate...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A coming-of-age novel featuring a farmer's son in 19th century New England. Daniel Stewart wants to be a doctor, but his father won't pay for studies, spending his money on drink and on making babies with his second wife. When the father dies, Daniel must care for the family, which ends his prospects of studies as well as marriage to his love. By the author of The Lady on My Left.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1880, four years after she had inherited her father's businesses, 23 year old Bridget Dene Mordaunt was running them with a firm and confident hand. When her feckless cousin Victoria becomes infatuated with Lionel Filmore, a pattern of some good and some great evil begins. A pattern that will inexorably link Bridget with the old but impoverished Filmore family and will shape the lives of generations to come.
13) The whip
Author
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, Emma Molinero moves in with her grandmother and struggles to find a place for herself in a rugged English village.
Author
Series
Mallen trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The first of a trilogy that will follow the lives of the Mallens through 3 generations.
17) The obsession
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An Englishwoman's battle to hang on to her family's bankrupt estate. She is Beatrice, one of four daughters of a gambling landowner who died in debt. By hook or by crook, Beatrice intends to hang on to her patrimony, her schemes including marriage and busting other people's marriage. By the author of The Year of the Virgins.
19) Tilly
Author
Series
Tilly Trotter trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Part of trilogy with Tilly wed and Tilly alone. Tilly lives in a cottage near the Sopwith estate, and she comes to the attention of the Lord of the Manor.
20) The girl
Author
Pub. Date
1977.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Left on the Thorntons' doorstep by her dying mother, Hannah suffers a harsh existence at the hands of Mrs. Thorton and is forced into marriage, at age sixteen, with the local butcher.
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