Florence Warden

The house on the marsh (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Wanted, a Governess; must be young." I cut out the advertisement thus headed eagerly from the Times. I was eighteen, and my youth had been the great obstacle to my getting an engagement; now here was some delightful advertiser who considered it an advantage. I wrote to the address given, enclosing my photograph and the list of my qualifications. Within a week I was travelling down to Geldham, Norfolk, engaged to teach "one little girl, aged six," at a salary of thirty-five pounds a year. The correspondence had been carried on by my future pupil's father, who said he would meet me at the station at Beaconsburgh, the market-town nearest to Geldham. It was about five o'clock on an afternoon in early August that I sat, trembling with excitement and fright, at the window of the railway-carriage, as the train steamed slowly into Beaconsburgh station. I looked out on to the platform. There were very few people on it, and there was no one who appeared at all like the gentleman I had pictured to myself as my future employer. There were two or three red-faced men who gave one the impression of being farmers, and at one end there were two young men engaged in securing a large mastiff, which was bounding about in great excitement at sight of the train. I got out and spoke to the station-master. "There is Mr. Rayner himself, ma'am," said he, pointing towards the two young men with the dog. One of them was now looking about, as if in search of somebody; and I walked timidly towards him. He seemed puzzled as his eyes fell upon me; then suddenly he raised his hat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Librorium Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782385743925
• Artikelnr.: 69115863

Autorenporträt

Florence Warden was an English actress and writer who published numerous novels under her stage name. Her real name was Florence Alice Price, and her marital name was Mrs G.E. James. Warden began her life as Florence Alice Price, the daughter of a stockbroker. She was born in Hanworth, Middlesex, and educated in both Brighton and France. In 1877, her debut novel, The Wolf at the Door, was published anonymously in Boston, Massachusetts. Warden worked as an actress between 1880 and 1885, and she also published stories and novels under her stage persona. In 1885, her mystery novel The House on the Marsh (1884) was adapted into a play in which she played the lead. Warden married an actor named George Edward James in 1887 in St Pancras. She continued to create novels, but she abandoned her acting profession. One of her sisters also became a writer, going by the name Gertrude Warden. Warden and her husband had two sons, Godfrey Warden James, born in St Pancras in 1888, and Rupert Warden, born in Ramsgate in 1893; and two daughters, Leslie Gertrude, born in London in 1890, and Olivia Mary, born in Ramsgate, Kent, in 1891. Warden's son, Godfrey Warden James (1888-1963), was educated at Oxford, qualified as a barrister, served as a schoolmaster and tutor, and as an Administrative Officer in Sierre Leone. He was also a novelist under the name Adam Broome.