Tuesday's Child early 19th century novel

 

 

 

Tuesday’s Child Book Three of Seven loosely connected series Heroines born on Different Days of the Week.

 

Rosemary Morris

 

Published by Book We Love

Harriet Stanton followed the drum until the deaths of her husband and father, army officers in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. Destitute, on the verge of starvation, she returns to England, with her three-year-old son, Arthur. Although she has never met her father-in-law, the Earl of Pennington, with whom her late husband had cut all ties, for Arthur’s sake, Harriet decides to ask Pennington for help. Turned away from his London house by servants, she is rescued by Georgianne Tarrant, who founded an institution to help soldiers’ widows and orphans.

 Desperate for an heir, the earl welcomes Harriet, and Arthur whose every wish he grants.

At first, Harriet is grateful to her father-in-law, but, as time goes by, she is locked in a silent battle to control Arthur, who has tantrums if he is denied anything. 

After Pennington refuses his permission for Arthur to swim in the lake, Arthur defies him. About to drown, he is rescued by charismatic Dominic, Reverend Markham, the Earl and Countess of Faucon’s younger son.

At the lakeside, Dominic meets Harriet. She is so dainty that his immediate impression is of a fairy. Despite her appearance, he is mistaken. Harriet is not a pampered lady by birth. During brutal campaigns in the Napoleonic war, she milked goats and cooked over campfires.

 

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“The background, clothes, the food and drink, and etiquette of the day help to bring the story to vibrant life.”

 

The links to buy Tuesday’s Child. https://bwlpublishing.ca/morris-rosemary

 

Rosemary Morris  invites you to her  website to read the first three chapters of Tuewsday’s Child. wwws.rosemarymorris.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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