Tuesday's Child early 19th century novel
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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 |
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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. Books We Love to Write… Books You’ll Love to Read “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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