41. Emily Fox-Seton by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Fiction)
(Free copy from Project Gutenberg)
Really quite a bizarre story, especially from Frances Hodgson Burnett, although in it’s sappy sentimentality it does remind me of Little Lord Fauntleroy. Miss Emily Fox-Seton is a thirty-four-year-old English lady who earns her living by doing various errands for upper- and middle-class women. After she marries a rich nobleman, she becomes the focus for the hatred of some of his relatives. The book was very short and reasonably entertaining, but rather confused in what story it was trying to tell. An unexpectedly mediocre offering from the woman who wrote something as wonderful at The Secret Garden.
Books read: 41/100 (41%)
Pages read: 11,610/25,000 (46%)
Days passed: 128365 (35%)
