![]() And here starts our young heroine’s journey. The letter is an offer from a long lost, very distant New York relation on the maternal side, who seeks a companion/governess for his young daughter. A Letter Arrives and Then…Ī May day in 1844, a letter arrives at a Connecticut farm, where a hardworking, humble, God-fearing family ekes out a living. All blended into its own uniquely engaging tale set in the Americas. ![]() Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d’Urbervilles – yes, themes and images and plot devices from the Brontë sisters, Austen, Hardy and du Maurier are heavily drawn upon and represented here. ![]() Often compared to Jane Eyre, Anya Seton’s Dragonwyck is a dark, Gothic delight, complete with a haunted mansion, an elusive, cruelly beautiful lord of the manor, a young, naïve, vain, impressionable, silly girl on the cusp of womanhood, and secrets – generations of them. ![]() Book Review: Dragonwyck (1944) by Anya Seton ![]()
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