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The further adventures of margaret of ashbury, widowed by the death of master kendall, and remarried into a family of the petty nobility. Picking up threads from her first novel, a vision of light, riley deftly crafts another historical romp, following margaret of ashbury through a tumultuous remarriage and a hazardous quest across 14t. The water devil a margaret of ashbury novel margaret of. Water is set in 1938, when india was still under the colonial rule of the british, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace. Oct 03, 2006 judith merkle riley is a professor of political science and has a ph. Married to an inventively cruel husband, margaret finds escape in the arms of the black death, left by the roadside as her husband escapes london on horseback. Judith merkle riley margaret of ashbury is ready to settle down. Margaret of ashbury might have been born in a small english country.
Now that theyve given margarets feisty daughters a stepbrother. Margaret is such a wonderful character, feisty and intelligent and totally fearless. In almost every book written about the middle ages where there is a strong female character, she is written as a protofeminist am i coining a term here. And, indeed, life with her true love and a brood of rambunctious children is. The water devil by judith merkle riley overdrive rakuten.
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