Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed on 5/1/2010 + 813 more book reviews

After putting down Cathers A Lost Lady, I did exactly what I predicted; I started another. The pangs of jealousy ring clearly in this pre-civil war novel set in the Virginia backcountry. Little by little we are fed the background that has created in each character either bias or tolerance of slavery. The title mistress seethes with jealousy as she imagines that her maid is overly kind to the master. Thus she develops a machination to ruin the maid. Her husband, the master, is overly abiding to her whims and is in fact a conjugal coward. Along the way we are introduced to the Underground Railroad and the dilemma of manumission.

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