From the back cover: Young Cassandra is alone in the world, her father has just died. When she goes to Cropthorne Manor as a governess, its weary facade and crumbling statues are all that she could hope for. And Marion Vanbrugh is the perfect employer - a widower, austere and distant, with a penchant for the Greek. But this is not a nineteenth century novel and Cassandra's Mr. Rochester isn't the only inhabitant of the Manor. . . Just as Jane Austen wittily contrasted real life with a girl's Gothic fantasies in Northanger 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.

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