![]() Just as Jane Austen wittily contrasted real life with a girl's Gothic fantasies in Northhanger Abbey, so Elizabeth Taylor subtly examines the realities of life for a latter-day Jane Eyre in this sharply observed work, first published in 1946. ![]() There's Tom, irascible and discontented, Margaret, pregnant and voracious, the ineffectual Tinty and the eccentric, domineering Nanny. ![]() Rochester isn't the only inhabitant of the Manor. But this is not a ninteenth-century novel and Cassandra's Mr. And Marion Vanbrugh is the perfect employer - a widower, austere and distant, with a penchant for Greek. When she goes to Cropthorne Manor as a governess, its weary facade and crumbling statues are all that she could hope for. ![]() Young Cassandra is alone in the world, her father had just died. During February we will read and discuss Elizabeth Taylor’s second novel, Palladian. ![]()
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