The Curate's Discipline - Softcover

Elizabeth Eiloart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371655552 ISBN 13: 9780371655559

Publisher: HardPress, 2016

Synopsis

The Curate's Discipline by Elizabeth Eiloart follows Philip Wendell, a young curate, as he falls in love with Magdalene Grant, ward of Elmsley guardian Mr. Thornleigh. Their engagement promises virtue and devotion, but a tangle of social constraints, past secret, and familial debts threatens the match. A central mystery concerns Magdalene’s birth and her supposed mother, Martha Warne, whose fragile links to the Thornleigh family threaten both Magdalene’s legitimacy and Wendell’s vocation. As Thornleigh dies, he reveals Magdalene’s true parentage and the will that leaves his wealth to Martha, forcing Magdalene to confront a new, precarious future. Meanwhile, subplots—Artie Waybrooke’s decline, Mrs. Marchdale’s schemes, Captain Osborne’s worldly steadiness—weave through the village of Elmsley and its environs. Philip confronts crushing doubts about faith and the church, ultimately choosing truth over a compromised priesthood. Magdalene, meanwhile, pursues art and a life worthy of her father’s memory. The Curate's Discipline is a Victorian drama of love, duty, inheritance, and spiritual struggle within a tightly drawn community.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371655552
• ISBN 13: 9780371655559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320