![]() ![]() Martha’s employer (or should I say her Rochester) is Connan TreMellyn, while her charge is Connan’s eight-year-old daughter Alvean, who has had, as is customary in such stories a few governesses before, none of whom lasted very long. ![]() And this she does-the story in fact opens with her on a train heading to Cornwall and to Mount Mellyn, the residence of the TreMellyns. Martha Leigh is young, unmarried and impoverished which means the only course open to her is to go out as a governess. This one has a Jane Eyre/Rebecca kind of plotline. This was also one of my first seasonal reads this October, since it was described as having a gothic/spooky tone to it. This is the first of Victoria Holt’s gothic romances, and my first time reading one of her books though I have read and enjoyed historical fiction written under her other pseudonym, Jean Plaidy, before. ![]()
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