Clorinda Wildairs, born in 1690 at a hard-drinking squire’s hall, is raised among his grooms and hounds dressed as a boy, until at fifteen she decides to become a lady and stuns the county with her beauty. Her past with the rake Sir John Oxon comes back to threaten everything she has won, and her answer to it gives the novel its notoriety.
Burnett’s bold historical romance of 1896, a bestseller in its day and a long way from The Secret Garden. Download the free EPUB.