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41) The girl
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Left on the Thorntons' doorstep by her dying mother, Hannah suffers a harsh existence at the hands of Mrs. Thorton and is forced into marriage, at age sixteen, with the local butcher.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Having decided she will never marry, Kate Worthington plans to escape her meddlesome family by travelling to India. Her mother agrees on the condition that she gets--and rejects--three marriage proposals. To fulfill her end of the bargain Kate travels to the manor of Blackmoore in northern England, where her plans go awry.
44) Tilly
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Part of trilogy with Tilly wed and Tilly alone. Tilly lives in a cottage near the Sopwith estate, and she comes to the attention of the Lord of the Manor.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Plucky nine-year-old Mary Ann Shaughnessy assumes responsibility for keeping her father from drinking when the family moves to a small farm and he accepts a job as a farmhand for a cranky old man. Sequel to "A grand man". 1956. (Mary Ann Shaughnessy series ; 2).
46) Tilly wed
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Part of trilogy with Tilly and Tilly alone. Tilly marries the older son of the lord of the manor and they move to the Texas frontier.
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
After a bizarre accident leaves him with amnesia, a young man, Roddy Greenbank, searches for his past and the meaning of his life and strange destiny, in a story of love, hate, and bitterness set in nineteenth-century Northumberland.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
At the Habitation, a large and decaying riverside house, the Crawfords were on the verge of bankruptcy - and when Martha Mary was obliged to take on the responsibility for her family, a series of dramatic events occurred that would test her indomitable fortitude.
52) Pure as the lily
Author
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill Co
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
A family saga spanning five generations in a tragedy-plagued British family.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Turn-of-the-century northern England is the setting for this portrait of ambivalent sexuality. Jack has been the kept transvestite "mistress" of two wealthy elderly men for twenty-years. After one of them dies, Jack writes his account of who he is and what happened between him and his lovers. A searingly incisive view of society and women's roles.
54) The tide of life
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a glad face. And at sixteen, Emily had a lot to be glad about. She loved her job as maid-of-all-work to the McGilbys, and the only cloud on her horizon was her anxiety about her delicate younger sister, Lucy. But when the invalid Mrs McGilby died, and Sep was killed in an accident soon after, Emily and Lucy were forced to leave South Shields to look for work. The household of Croft Dene house, where Lawrence...
55) Scarweather
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
1913. John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At Scarweather--Reisby's lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England--Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby's much younger wife, and matters soon take a dangerous turn. Fifteen years later, the final scene of the drama is enacted. This unorthodox novel from 1934 is by a gifted crime writer who, wrote Dorothy L. Sayers, 'handles his characters...
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