Masterful tale of suspense, a family saga and romance that stays with you long after you've finished reading it.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Friday, July 24, 2020
A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder
A Manifest Destiny tells the
story of Bettina Mowbray, a sweet-natured and beautiful American girl
who meets the heir of a British lord. He falls madly in love with her
and they are engaged to be married. But his cousin, Lord Hurdly, is
vehemently opposed to the union and Bettina's attempts to win him round
are fruitless. Instead Bettina receives an offer and makes a decision
that seems to doom her for a life of unhappiness and disappointment...
This charming love story from 1900 may sound highly fanciful, but Julia
Magruder's own cousin Helen had married a Baron to become Lady Abinger,
so she had recent family experience on which to draw.
Monday, July 13, 2020
Friday, May 29, 2020
Beth Coldwell should have died. At fourteen years old, she was dying
in a hospital bed, when her guardian, Christian Henderson, swept in and
turned everything upside down. Years later, she''s alive and well, but
she doesn''t know why. Christian did something unthinkable, possibly
criminal, to save her life, but what? Beth must pick apart the mystery
of why he''s being chased, kidnapped, spied upon, and drugged at every
turn. How can she pull down the wall between them so he will welcome
her to his world?
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
This is the fascinating advnture tale of Vikings and Norsemen by Edna Lyall.
Edna Lyall was the pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley. Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister. At an early age, she lost both her parents and she spent her youth with an uncle in Surrey and in a Brighton private school. Bayly never married and she seems to have spent her adult life living in with her two married sisters and her brother, a clergyman in Bosbury in Herefordshire. In 1879, she published her first novel, Won by Waiting, under the pen name of "Edna Lyall" (apparently derived from transposing letters from Ada Ellen Bayly). The book was not a success. Success came with We Two, based on the life of Charles Bradlaugh, a social reformer and advocate of free thought. Her historical novel In the Golden Days was the last book read to John Ruskin on his deathbed. Bayly wrote eighteen novels.
Edna Lyall was the pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley. Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister. At an early age, she lost both her parents and she spent her youth with an uncle in Surrey and in a Brighton private school. Bayly never married and she seems to have spent her adult life living in with her two married sisters and her brother, a clergyman in Bosbury in Herefordshire. In 1879, she published her first novel, Won by Waiting, under the pen name of "Edna Lyall" (apparently derived from transposing letters from Ada Ellen Bayly). The book was not a success. Success came with We Two, based on the life of Charles Bradlaugh, a social reformer and advocate of free thought. Her historical novel In the Golden Days was the last book read to John Ruskin on his deathbed. Bayly wrote eighteen novels.
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