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1 When Hope Failed Anna Boulter , 1897 single work novella romance Faith Roden finishes school early to return as companion to her cousin Gerald's beautiful wife Hope and Gerald's stepmother Aunt Cicily Eastcourt who has raised Faith as her daughter. Trouble associated with a neighbour Sir Percival Ryder clouds her return. Aunt Cicily accuses Hope of infidelity to her husband - but he bids Aunt Cicily leave his house. Faith goes with her but still loving Hope and knowing the truth of the latter's love for Sir Percival. Faith hears Sir Percival urging Hope to run away with him one evening in Gerald's absence and rushes in to prevent her. Gerald comes upon them and Hope implicates Faith in her secret. An explosion at the mines owned by Gerald brings Aunt Cicily, Faith and Gerald to help - and Hope runs away with Sir Percival. Gerald divorces her and buries himself in his work. Eventually, after a London season in which Faith meets and repudiates Sir Percival, Faith and Gerald marry and have a son, who is subject to visitations by a mysterious woman. It is the same figure who rescues little Gerald from the fire which burns their house and a final appeal in person to Gerald reveals Hope begging for forgiveness. Gerald feels he is still her husband, and Faith flees. Then Hope's death-scene, and ultimately, Faith and Gerald's reunion. (PB)
1 Renira, the Blacksmith's Daughter Anna Boulter , 1893-1894 single work novel romance Vale Chayter, noble owner of Honeybourne estate and recently returned from years abroad meets Renira Clyde, blacksmith's daughter, whose beauty attracts him despite her rough manners. She is awakened to her beauty and the coarseness of herself and her surroundings. Vale's mother wishes him to marry a rich pretty young heiress, Violet Cray, to rescue their estate from ruin, but, provoked, he declares he will choose his own wife. Necessity presses, and Renira's ignorance repulses him - but Renira is now receiving the attentions of the rich miller who wishes to marry her. With the miller's help she enrolls at the Honeybourne estate school, envying Violet who Vale does not love but hopes to marry. He proposes to Violet and is accepted but the same day rescues Renira from a storm and feels himself passionately in love. He persuades her to run away with him to Paris. She leaves him when she discovers he won't marry her and returns to England a year later to find him on the verge of marrying Violet and herself ostracized by the villagers except the miller and his sister. Vale is killed and Renia arrested, before the assistance of the minister Christian Ward gains her release. Violet becomes her friend, and Renira becomes a teacher's assistance and a successful poet. (PB)
1 Jack and I Anna Boulter , 1892 single work novel romance Motherless Dolores Annie Ravenscroft at sixteen feels heself unloved by her father and sister Olive and is friends only with her neighbour's ward, Jack Constantine. The arrival of Sir Marshall Dane to his rich estates nearby prompts Olive to try and win his affections. Another stranger, a gentle lady, briefly visits the area and meets Dolores by accident. They are drawn to each other and the lady seems to know a great deal of D.'s family, but she faints and disappears while D. is seeking help. Sir M. comes to her aid and their acquaintance steadily grows, with Jack and her family too, until Sir M. asks D. to marry him on her 17th birthday. Her father and Olive practically force her into the marriage, family debts burdening them - and Olive warns her not to bring shame on the family as her mother did in deserting their father. Once married Olive comes to live with them and proves more of a companion to Marshall than D. who feels increasingly cut off from her husband. Jack is cool; and D. meets once again the lady met earlier. ... The mystery of her mother is solved. A severe illness and mental strain intervene - Olive is revealed in all her love of power and vengeance. Annie and Sir Marshall separate, Dolores returning to her father in Normandy where she bears a daughter and motherhood strengthens her. Her father discovers the truth of her mother's continued love and innocence and they are reunited - having a son together. Marshall and D. are reunited by the death of their daughter ... until Sir M. dies ... then Jack.(PB)
1 y separately published work icon Philipena Anna Boulter , 1885-1886 Z93566 1885-1886 single work short story
1 Uncle Marmaduke's Will, or, Sunshine and Shadow Anna Boulter , 1884 single work novella Minnie Thorald's 18th birthday is lonely with step-mother absent and her father seriously ill. Her gentlemanly tutor M. Gabriel brings her a present of wild flowers and her cousin Miles tells her of their uncle's will which leaves them a fortune on condition they marry. She swears she will never marry without love. The next day her father dies and thus, without marriage - she loses title to the and wealth he enjoyed in trust - through Uncle Marrmaduke. M. Gabriel proposes to her and she accepts, and only then does he reveal himself as Royce Gabriel Thorold, another cousin to whom her marriage will deliver great fortune. They marry but a secret in Royce's past comes back to haunt them. Miles stoops to nasty tricks to separate Royce and Minnie. Narrator changes between Royce and Minne. (PB)
1 Woman's Devotion Anna Boulter , 1883 single work short story romance Romance of the English nobility. In southern England, Norman Falconer bids farewell to Lady Barbara Endcliffe who is to marry her cousin Sir Basil. She loves Norman but he has tired of her, and her dying father insists she marry Basil. His urgency is never explained to her and Basil vows to protect her from the dubious truth. Meanwhile in a factory town in northern England poor but gently reared Hagar Calvert saves a rich handsome stranger's life. They are attracted, but he gives his name as Norman Basil Endcliffe which mysteriously prejudices Hagar's Aunt Rachel against him. Eventually Hagar runs away and they marry secretly. The story continues through the fulfilment of the Falconer family prophecy; Hagar's selfless love; the loss of her baby in a snow-storm; the discovery of her true father; Norman's faithlessness and repentance; the secret of Sir Basil's self-imposed silence etc. (PB)
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