House at Harcourt

First Edition, tight binding, no spine creases,
() Eliza Forester is left motherless at the
tender age of three when her father orders his wife from
the house, accu [more]

First Edition, tight binding, no spine creases,
() Eliza Forester is left motherless at the
tender age of three when her father orders his wife from
the house, accusing her of infidelity. He keeps the child,
not out of love, but to spite his wife, and Eliza grows up
believing her mother is dead. Her happiest times are spent
with Ruby and Jerome, the children of tenant farmers on her
father's estate. When, at 16, Eliza's innocent friendship
with Jerome turns to love, Elizalike her motheris banished
to Lon[less]