Elizabeth Goudge
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at her ancestral home in an enchanted village in England's West Country, where she discovers it is her destiny to right the wrongs of her ancestors and end an ancient feud.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Lindsay met her little cousin and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative child a kindred spirit to inherit her ancient house. Fifty years later the younger Mary inherited the house with no knowledge of it beyond her indelible childhood memories, and no experience at all of living in the country.
Author
Series
Eliot heritage volume 2
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
612 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
4) Gentian Hill
Author
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
vii, 402 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Love story of a midshipman and an orphan farm girl, set on the Devonshire coast in the days when the shadow of Napoleon threatened the peace of England.
Author
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Left in the care of their strict grandmother, the four Linnet children find a much happier home with their Uncle Ambrose, his one-legged gardener, and the people of a small English village, where they help explain an old mystery and restore the joy of new friends.
Author
Pub. Date
[1960]
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An English cathedral town in the mid-nineteenth century forms the background for the warm and gentle story of Isaac Peabody, an obscure clockmaker, a dreamer but a dedicated craftsman, and of Adam Ayscough, the brilliant, pious Dean of the Cathedral, whose great love for his parishioners is stifled by his own unconquerable shyness.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being orphaned, young Maria Merryweather leaves her luxurious home to live with her eccentric uncle at the mysterious Moonacre Manor. There she discovers a magical world torn apart by an ancient feud and inhabited by outlandish characters and mythical beasts. Now, Maria must unearth the secrets of her past before the 5000th moon rises and Moonacre Manor disappears into the sea forever.
