Word: heiress
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...TROUT, by Elizabeth Bowen. This is a rare commodity on today's fiction market: a novel of sensibility. The story is about a wandering, capricious heiress in whose wake many lives bob helplessly...
...anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money or avoid having to confront...
Barbara Bain poses as a blind Balkan heiress as the Impossible Missions Force thwarts the ambitions of a sinister regent. Third season. Premiere...
Married. Jayne Harries, 16, Britain's runaway of the year and heiress to a London banking fortune; and Gavin Hodge, 23, a mod hairdresser she met at a party last April; on Gibraltar. No stranger to the headlines, Jayne had newsmen and her frantic parents chasing her two weeks ago when she and Gavin eloped to Europe. But the folks finally gave in when they found that the kids were really that way about each other...
Married. Princess Peggy d'Arenberg, 35, blonde jet setter and oil (Jersey Standard) heiress; and the Duc d'Uzés, 40, darkly handsome French nobleman (his title is the oldest in France); she for the third time, he for the second; in Marrakesh, Morocco...