Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509877991
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Book Synopsis The Youngest Miss Ward by : Joan Aiken
Download or read book The Youngest Miss Ward written by Joan Aiken and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park famously narrates the story of poor little Fanny Price sent to live with her mother's grander sisters - the Ward family. Written almost two centuries later, Joan Aiken’s powerful sequel reverses the story and introduces us to The Youngest Miss Ward, Hatty, sent to fend for herself with the poor relations. Although creative, charismatic and witty, Hatty Ward lacks the beauty that her older sisters inherited and is left without a dowry to care for their ill mother once her sisters are married off. Sent to Portsmouth to live with her rumbustious uncle and cousins, Hatty turns her creative flair to poetry and believes she must become a governess, that is until handsome Lord Camber passes through town . . . With imagination and authenticity Joan Aiken captures the customs and language of Austen’s England in this one of a kind sequel, revealing a subversive and unique heroine.