Word: menfrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-known and most successful Gothic storytellers (Mistress of Mellyn, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin). This book is about Harriet Delvaney, a poor little rich girl who is afflicted with a limp and is despised by her father because her mother died at her birth. She marries Bevil Menfrey, the handsome, tawny-haired scion of a high-spirited but impoverished family, and goes to live at Menfreya, a fortresslike mansion on the Cornish coast. Once installed, Harriet is deliriously happy-but hark: what about the beautiful, coolly poised governess who smugly glides around the joint and who soon becomes...
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