6/8/2023 0 Comments Karleen koen author![]() ![]() I appreciated her reaction to slavery - which she eventually abolishes on her own plantation, just as she frees her own beloved small slave Hyacinthe - and to the Virginia wilderness, samples of which she takes back with her to London. Though I must admit to a prejudice against all too perfect heroines with heart-shaped faces and the ability to mesmerize any red-blooded male in the vicinity, it was still hard not to like Barbara. ![]() Having lost her fortune - as well as her husband and brother - to the South Sea Bubble, the lovely but iron-willed young aristocrat travels to colonial Virginia, where her beloved grandmother owns a tobacco plantation, which Barbara works hard to understand and improve. N ow Face to Face is the sequel to Through a Glass Darkly, in which Barbara Montgeoffry was married at fifteen (to become Countess Devane) and widowed at twenty. ![]()
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