Mistress of Mellyn Kirkland Revels Author:Victoria Holt As the train carried Martha Leigh- heroine of MISTRESS OF MELLYN- through the wooded hills of Devon, she could not help feeling a deep sense of foreboding. Becoming a governess was the prescribed formula for a Victorian girl alone in the world, but Martha was a high-spirited, attractive young woman who hated the very idea of it. — Thr magnificen... more »t manor house on the Yorkshire moors, the ancestral home of the Rockwell famil, was called KIRKLAND REVELS.« less