Laura Montreville, the daughter of a half-pay officer in a Scottish village, has just nursed her mother through a long final illness when the handsome Colonel Hargrave declares himself, on dishonourable terms. Refusing him, she goes to London, supports her father by selling her paintings, and must keep her principles amid poverty, persecution and a love she cannot quite extinguish.
A once-famous novel of 1811 that Jane Austen read and teased, for readers curious about the fiction of the Regency. Download the free EPUB.