Bøger af Margaret Bowker

Having endured a privileged, but rather cloistered life, twenty-three year old Paul Derry comes to Prior Street to stay with his spinster cousins, Viola and Letitia Derimont. He is surprised to find himself living in an ordinary area and released from the restrictions of London society, makes the acquaintance of Catrina Bradley, whose mother runs a shop in the street. Catrina fills the role of Miss Derimont's daughter and the young people become friends. Paul's aristocratic background allows him to elevate Catrina onto an equal level and a holiday in Brighton re-enforces this situation. It is only when Catrina's brother, Charles, is humiliated by his fiancé breaking their engagement to marry Paul's brother, John, that the difference in the two worlds becomes apparent. To add to this disgrace Letty Derimont, a lovely and desperate to be married thirty-five, encourages the attentions of John's disreputable and heavily indebted mentor, Ranley Staines.

The Governess is the latest exciting literary romance novel in Margaret Bowker's Modern Classics Series. Raised by wealthy Mrs Mallory, twenty-two year old Mary Charlton goes to Princeton Court to be an assistant governess to Harry Toille, the young son of Lord Bryam. She soon takes on the additional role of chaperone and friend to his elder sister, Jocasta Cecil, a pretty, wilful girl of twenty with forty thousand pounds. Mary yhelps Jocasta through a number of scrapes and is attracted to Nicholas Hammick, heir to the hazeley Hall estate, and a veru suitable match for the young heiress, but the arrival of John Feltham, a trainee schoolmaster, diverts Jocasta and Mary has to try hard to keep her to her mother's plan, even though her step-father, Lord Bryam, is plotting to disgrace her. When Lord Bryam arranges for Jocasta to dance in transparent clothing, Mary has to intervene. She discovers a secret link with Jocasta and continues to save her reputation, until she pushes Lord Bryam too far and nearly loses her life.

This is a detailed study of the large and important diocese of Lincoln under three sixteenth-century bishops, Smith, Wolsey and Atwater.

The book will be invaluable reading for students of the social, ecclesiastical and political history of early modern England.