![]() So I came to this gothic, mysterious, epistolary novel with high expectations. One of my finest reading memories is of enjoying Dracula while working on a summer internship at a national park on a peninsula with four beaches. I love slow-moving, epistolary novels, particularly gothic ones read on a long, hot summer day. However, Laura is reluctant to renege on her final promise to her father and proceeds with her marriage, sending herself, Marian, and Walter into a spiral of intrigue and danger. ![]() A mysterious woman dressed all in white warns Laura against her marriage, calling Lord Glyde evil. He and Laura soon fall in love, but they cannot be together due to class differences and Laura’s prior promise to her now deceased father to marry Lord Percival Glyde. Walter Hartright is an artist who gets hired to be a drawing master for two half-sisters Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe. ![]() Originally serialized in 1859 to 1860 then published in book form in 1860 this epistolary novel is considered one of the first mystery novels. ![]()
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