- Fiction, Dutch Americans, gothic romance, American fiction
A classic gothic romance, the story features an 18-year-old Miranda Wells who falls under the spell of a mysterious old mansion and its equally fascinating master. Tired of churning butter, weeding the garden patch, and receiving the dull young farmers who seek her hand in marriage, Miranda is excited by an invitation from the upstate New York estate of her distant relative, the intriguing Nicholas Van Ryn.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Anya Seton
- First published
- 1944
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin company, Houghton Mifflin Co., Chicago Review Press
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780854561711
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“IT WAS ON AN AFTERNOON IN MAY OF 1844 THAT THE letter came from Dragonwyck.”
Ann Seton was born in New York, and died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. She is interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich. Her historical novels were noted for how extensively she researched the historical facts, and some of them were best-sellers. Dragonwyck (1941) and Foxfire (1950) were both made into Hollywood films. Two of her books are classics in their genre and continue in their popularity to the present; Katherine, the story of Katherine Swynford, the mistress and eventual wife of John of Gaunt, and their children, who eventually became the
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